The Tangent Piano Unlocked: EMS 29 November 2015

[doversoul1]

Lucie Skeaping talks to the leading early keyboard player Linda Nicholson about an instrument which is seldom heard today but which was once nearly as popular as the fortepiano.
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The music was recorded at a concert held in the Art Workers' Guild on a Tangent piano by Friedrich Schmahl of Regensburg in 1797 and a clavichord made by Johann Adolph Hass of Hamburg in 1767.

Pietro Domenico Paradisi : Sonata in D major (1754)Georg Christoph Wagenseil
Divertimento in B flat major, Op. 1, No. 6
Mozart : Marche funèbre del Signor Maestro Contrapunto (K. 453a)
Sonata in C major (K. 279/189d)
Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697-1763): Adagio movement from Sonata in G minor, Op. 1, No. 4
Haydn : Capriccio - 'Acht Sauschneider müssen sein' (Hob. XVII/1).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06qjknk

When does/ early music end?

[vinteuil]

When does early music end?

... my current feeling is that a 'safe' date might be - music composed before reliable recordings.

But this is of course for the other thread

You might be interested in this -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0195189876

Altho' here the word 'end' means 'purpose, objective' rather than 'conclusion, termination'.

It's a good read

[ardcarp]

Just hearing the tangent piano EMS on i-player. It's obviously an 'expressive' instrument...to me like a loud clavichord. As for....

When does/ early music end?

...well, it's arbitrary of course. In my youth, Baroque music all went under the heading of 'early'. One is tempted to say that it marked the end of 'early' and that anything classical/rococo/ggalante isn't. I suppose Haydn and Mozart sneak under the wire on today's programme by being played on an early or at least transitional instrument. Anyway, does it matter?

Incidentally does anyone remember that Toccata by Paradisi which was made famous by George Malcolm on his ironclad harpsichord and which every aspiring young pianist (including me) just had to play...as fast as possible?