RIP Alice Harnoncourt and Marie Leonhardt

[MickyD]

I've just learned of the deaths of both these pioneering baroque violinists, literally within days of each other. Truly the end of an era.

[Bryn]

We have much to be grateful to them for.

[Beresford]

A double loss.
I love the recordings of Alice and Herbert Tachezi playing the Bach violin and harpsichord sonatas, with Nicholas sometimes doubling the bass on his gamba - such joy. Never released on CD, IIRC.

[Mandryka]

Did you catch the Bach chaconne from Marie Leonhardt on YouTube? I don’t think it’s a commercial recording.

[Mandryka]

A double loss.
I love the recordings of Alice and Herbert Tachezi playing the Bach violin and harpsichord sonatas, with Nicholas sometimes doubling the bass on his gamba - such joy. Never released on CD, IIRC.

I have a non commercial transfer of this, which I can let people have if they wish. I also have a transfer of Harnoncourt’s recording of the Bach gamba sonatas with Tachezi where she occurs in a bonus piece - the trio sonata for two violons BWV 1037 (Walter Pfeiffer takes the other violin)