Andreas Staier at Wigmore

[french frank]

Lunchtime Concert, Monday 26 May, 1pm:

Andreas Staier (harpsichord):

D'Anglebert: Prélude and Chaconne Rondeau (from Première Suite in G)
J.S. Bach: Contrapunctus V & VI (The Art of Fugue)
F. Couperin: Septième Prélude in B flat (from L'Art de toucher le clavecin)
F. Couperin: Sixième Ordre (from Pièces de clavecin, Book 2)
J.S. Bach: Partita No 4 in D, BWV828

[Lento]

I hope he's less fat-fingered than Ronald Brautigam was last Monday.

[doversoul1]

1.00 pm today.

[Tony Halstead]

I hope he's less fat-fingered than Ronald Brautigam was last Monday.

Why?
Was it on TV?
If it was only on the wireless how could you see his fingers? (unless you were actually there)

[ardcarp]

Tony, forgive me if I'm missing some heavy irony here, but 'fat-fingered' just means playing some wrong notes or making some slips.

[Tony Halstead]

Tony, forgive me if I'm missing some heavy irony here, but 'fat-fingered' just means playing some wrong notes or making some slips.

Doh...sorry...
I find it hard to believe, as I have conducted many Mozart and Haydn concertos with Brautigam over the years and have always found him to be almost unbelievably accurate ( and musically intuitive of course)

[ardcarp]

Tony, what instrument/s was he using when playing for you?

[Tony Halstead]

Tony, what instrument/s was he using when playing for you?

Usually a Paul McNulty copy of an Anton Walter fortepiano.

[Lento]

I just thought I detected rather a lot of slips, which were beginning to become a distraction.

[MickyD]

Usually a Paul McNulty copy of an Anton Walter fortepiano.

....and I cherish the complete Mozart and Haydn sets he has done for BIS. He seems to get everything just right and the BIS recordings are superb. I can't wait for the Beethoven cycle to be boxed next.

[amateur51]

....and I cherish the complete Mozart and Haydn sets he has done for BIS. He seems to get everything just right and the BIS recordings are superb. I can't wait for the Beethoven cycle to be boxed next.

Same here MickyD