Our Summer BAL 87: JS Bach English suites (harpsichord versions)

[Mandryka]

No less than two important instruments in fact....a 1749 Goujon and a 1646 Ruckers!

How come you're such a Hogwood expert? Did you work with him?

[AuntDaisy]

How come you're such a Hogwood expert? Did you work with him?

I'm guessing that, apart from being an undoubted expert, MickyD's LP or CD notes might list the instruments.

Discogs has LP photos, but they're a tad small to show off these beautiful instruments in their glory.

[MickyD]

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How come you're such a Hogwood expert? Did you work with him?

In a way, yes. I edited the newsletter of the Friends of The Academy of Ancient Music during the 80s. It was quite tough in those days getting information out of Decca about new releases for readers. I also helped out at London concerts and was kindly invited to a few recording sessions. I met Christopher a few times and I guess I have a lot of information in my head about him and the orchestra.

Aunt Daisy is correct, the harpsichords are listed in the CD booklet but sadly no colour photos as in the more luxurious LP release.

[AuntDaisy]

In a way, yes. I edited the newsletter of the Friends of The Academy of Ancient Music during the 80s. It was quite tough in those days getting information out of Decca about new releases for readers. I also helped out at London concerts and was kindly invited to a few recording sessions. I met Christopher a few times and I guess I have a lot of information in my head about him and the orchestra.

Aunt Daisy is correct, the harpsichords are listed in the CD booklet but sadly no colour photos as in the more luxurious LP release.

Very envious.

If you can have a Bacon or Erdős number, could we start a Hogwood one? You'd be a Hogwood 1.

[Mandryka]

My connection with Christopher Hogwood is that I own his old copy of Willi Apel's History of Keyboard Music to 1700, complete with marginalia. So I claim Hogwood 3.

Me -- Travis & Emery -- the Hogwood Estate executors -- Christopher Hogwood.

[oliver sudden]

My connection with Christopher Hogwood is that I own his old copy of Willi Apel's History of Keyboard Music to 1700, complete with marginalia. So I claim Hogwood 3.

Me -- Travis & Emery -- the Hogwood Estate executors -- Christopher Hogwood.

TRAVIS & EMERY

[AuntDaisy]

My connection with Christopher Hogwood is that I own his old copy of Willi Apel's History of Keyboard Music to 1700, complete with marginalia. So I claim Hogwood 3.
Me -- Travis & Emery -- the Hogwood Estate executors -- Christopher Hogwood.

Lovely to have Hogwood's own hand-written notes.

[MickyD]

Very envious.

If you can have a Bacon or Erdős number, could we start a Hogwood one? You'd be a Hogwood 1.

Ha ha, thank you, you're most kind!

To be honest, my first encounter with Hogwood was a little embarrassing. At the end of the 70s, I was film operations manager at LWT and the South Bank Show had recently launched.

In tandem with the Decca release of the Leçons de Ténèbres by Couperin, the same artists Judith Nelson, Emma Kirkby, Jane Ryan and Hogwood did a 15 minute extract for the programme. It was shot in a London church, though I can't remember which one.
Next day, disaster, the sound recordist had messed up and a reshoot had to be quickly organised.

When I met CH during the interval of an AAM concert at St John's Smith Square some months later, he asked what I did for a living. I told him I was at LWT and mentioned the Couperin programme. Immediately he pounced on me and said "Were you the one responsible for the sound problems?" , to which I quickly replied I most certainly wasn't ! We laughed it off but nonetheless I could tell he was still rather miffed!