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Archive

2019

Thursday, 26 September

6.15pm East Parry Room, Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, London SW7

Performing Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier: lecture-recital by Terence Charlston

www.rcm.ac.uk

Sunday, 8 September

6pm Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, CB3 0DG

Francis Knights (clavichord): J. S. Bach, Goldberg Variations

Part of Francis Knights’ continuing Complete Bach series

Monday, 26 August

11am Quaker Meeting House, Sudbury Friars Street, Sudbury, CO10 2AA

Clavichord recital by Terence Charlston

The programme included music by Antoine de Févin, Byrd, Froberger, J. S. and C. P. E. Bach, and a Beethoven duet (with Julian Perkins), played on clavichords by Andreas Hermert and Peter Bavington. Part of the Suffolk Villages Festival.

Saturday, 17 August

1.30–2.30pm Quaker Meeting House, 12 Southdown Road, Harpenden AL5 1PD

Clavichord recital by Terence Charlston

Partita No. 4 in D major by J. S. Bach and fugues by J. J. Froberger, played on clavichords by Andreas Hermert and Peter Bavington.

Saturday, 22 June

2.15pm (meeting), 4pm (recital) Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW

BCS General Meeting and free clavichord recital by Julian Perkins

Following the decision on the future of our society taken at the 2018 AGM (see the draft minutes) this was the last event before the society is dissolved on 31 July 2019. The recital by Julian Perkins included works by Froberger, Purcell, Handel, Scarlatti, J. S. Bach, Herbert Howells and Stephen Dodgson, played on clavichords made by Karin Richter and Peter Bavington.

Saturday, 4 May

11–11.25am All Saints, Pembroke Road, Bristol BS8 3BE

Talk and recital on a Richter clavichord by David Griffel

Part of the Bristol Early Music Festival.

Saturday, 13 April

Chelveston Village Hall, Caldecott Road, Caldecott, Wellingborough NN9 6AT

Friends of Square Pianos meeting

See www.friendsofsquarepianos.co.uk (click on ‘Chelveston 2019’).

Saturday, 30 March

1.30–2.30pm Quaker Meeting House, 12 Southdown Road, Harpenden AL5 1PD (5 minutes’ walk from Harpenden Railway Station)

Terence Charlston and Julian Perkins: Music for Two Clavichords

Including the world première of ‘Five Pieces for Two Clavichords’ by Terence Charlston and works by W. F. Bach, Peter Maxwell Davies, Mozart and Müthel.

Saturday, 9 March

2.30pm Hughes Hall, Wollaston Road, Cambridge CB1 2EW

Francis Knights (clavichord): Contemporary clavichord music

Includes works by Herbert Howells, Barry Guy (world premiere), Ivan Moody, Julia Usher, Alan Bullard, Matyas Seiber and Jerome Roche. Details at https://francis-knights.webnode.com.

2018

Saturday, 15 December

3.30pm St Mary’s Church, Studham, Bedfordshire, LU6 2NW

‘Heaven and Earth in Little Space’: Christmas Music for Clavichord. Recital by Adrian Lenthall

The programme consisted of domestic and devotional music by composers including Ammerbach, Bull, Sweelinck, Buxtehude, Böhm, J. S. Bach, Gottlieb Muffat, Frescobaldi, D. Scarlatti, P. Dandrieu, Bartók and Geoffrey Allan Taylor. This repertoire ranges very widely in terms of history, geography and style, as well as in mood and emotional level, but has at its core a take on the celebration of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany which is grounded and centred by the intimate sound of the clavichord. The ‘title track’, a specially made intabulation of the medieval carol There is no rose, can be heard on www.adrianlenthall.co.uk/audio.

Sunday, 18 November

4pm The Workshop, English Passage, Lewes, BN7 2AP

Clavichord recital by Pierre Goy

Works by C. P. E. Bach, J. G. Müthel and Mozart. www.theworkshopseries.co.uk

Saturday, 17 November A BCS event

3pm Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW

Clavichord recital by Pierre Goy

Works by C. P. E. Bach, J. G. Müthel and Mozart performed by the distinguished Swiss keyboard player Pierre Goy.

Saturday, 10 November

10am–c.11pm Emmanuel College, St Andrews Street, Cambridge CB2 3AP

François Couperin 350th Anniversary Festival

The complete keyboard music (including the two organ masses) played on harpsichord, spinet, clavichord and organ. Free (retiring collection). For information, see www.couperin2018.webnode.com

Friday 9 November

1.10pm St Cecilia’s Hall, Niddry Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1LG

Clavichord and harpsichord recital by Neil Coleman

A programme to celebrate the 350th birthday of F. Couperin. Works by Mozart, Benda, C. P. E. Bach and Couperin (pieces from vingtsixième ordre).

Friday–Sunday, 2–4 November

Holbornsche Haus, Göttingen, Germany

44th Clavichordtage of the German Clavichord Society

Concerts, lectures and workshops celebrating F. W. Marpurg (1718–1795), J. N. Forkel (1749–1818) and the 25th birthday of the German Clavichord Society. Recitalists and speakers include Dalyn Cook, Sally Fortino, Martin Kather, Bernhard Klapprott and Charlotte Marck. For further information, see www.clavichord.info/clavtage_vorschau.html .

Saturday, 3 November

7.30pm Margaret Beaufort Institute, 12 Grange Road, Cambridge CB3 9DU (www.margaretbeaufort.cam.ac.uk)

Clavichord recital by Douglas Hollick

Three Haydn sonatas and works by C. P. E. Bach and Jiri Benda played on a Dolmetsch Chickering clavichord formerly in the collection of Christopher Hogwood.

Thursday, 27th September 2018

6.15pm Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BS

Professor Terence Charlston, Chair of Historical Keyboard Instruments. Curating Counterpoint, the lyrical imagination and the performance of Johann Jacob Froberger’s legacy.

The performance of counterpoint has always fascinated keyboard players, and the seventeenth-century virtuoso J. J. Froberger appears to have shared this enthusiasm. His remarkable fugues combine arcane method and melodic invention in a very original manner. This inaugural professorial lecture investigated Froberger’s fugal technique and considered the preservation of counterpoint in items from the RCM Collections. Musical examples were played on the bentside spinet by Stephen Keene, London c. 1685 (RCM 179) and on the RCM’s clavichord by Derek Adlam after C. G. Hubert (1771).

Thursday, 20 September

3pm Fountainhall House, Pencaitland, East Lothian, Scotland, EH34 5EY

Clavichord recital by Julian Perkins

See www.lammermuirfestival.co.uk

Saturday, 4 August

12 noon Sacred Heart Church, Petworth, W. Sussex, GU28 0BG

Clavichord recital by Julian Perkins

www.petworthfestival.org.uk

Thursday 12th July

11am - 4.30pm Romney Marsh, Kent

Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues

Linda Nicholson and Daniel Cook play on clavichord, harpsichord, organ and piano. See https://www.jamconcert.org/event/bach-48-preludes-and-fugues-clavichord-harpsichord-organ-piano/

Wednesday 11th July

5pm BBC Radio 3

In Tune

Linda Nicholson playing her Hass clavichord as an introduction to a concert the next day - see above

Saturday, 30 June

4pm. Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AT

‘By Season Season'd’: Clavichord recital by Adrian Lenthall

Adrian Lenthall played works by J. S. and C. P. E. Bach and Haydn, and earlier music by Banchieri, Byrd, Frescobaldi, Kerll and François Couperin. Preceded by the 23rd BCS AGM at 2.15pm (members only).

Thursday to Saturday, 7-9 June

Orgelpark, Amsterdam

Symposium: Clavichord and Organ, companions for centuries.

For a report of this event, see www.clavichordgenootschap.nl/symposium2018_eng.html

Friday 1 June

7:30 - 9:30 Holywell Music Room, Oxford

Handel's Attic: Clavichord recital by Julian Perkins.

Handel, Frescobaldi, Froberger, Pachelbel A selection of toccatas and suites

Last two weeks of May

Kuopio, Finland

Seventh Nordic Historical Keyboard Festival

Tuesday, 1 May

1pm Bate Collection, Faculty of Music, Oxford OX1 1DB

Recital by David Griffel on the 1743 Hass clavichord and the 1781 Shudi & Broadwood harpsichord:

François Couperin’s Ordre 26 and Mozart’s B minor adagio on clavichord, and other music by Mozart and Couperin on harpsichord and clavichord. www.bate.ox.ac.uk.

Saturday, 7 April

Chelveston Village Hall, Wellingborough

Meeting of the Friends of Square Pianos.

2017

Saturday, 18 November A BCS event

3.30pm. Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LW

Clavichord recital by Carole Cerasi

For details, see box above.

Tuesday, 14 November

1pm. The Bate Collection, Faculty of Music, Oxford, OX1 1DB

Clavichord recital including music by Haydn and Beethoven, David Griffel.

Sunday, 11 November

2pm. New Music Room, St John’s College, Cambridge CB2 1TP

Howells 125th Anniversary Recital

Francis Knights and Dan Tidhar perform the complete clavichord music of Herbert Howells.

Tuesday, 17 October

1pm. The Bate Collection, Faculty of Music, Oxford, OX1 1DB

Recital on the 1743 Hass clavichord: David Griffel, clavichord, and Clare Griffel, voice.

Keyboard music by J. S. and C. P. E. Bach, and J. F. Reichardt, and songs by C. P. E. Bach, Reichardt and Telemann. www.bate.ox.ac.uk.

Saturday, 2 September

10.00 am to 5.30 pm. Murray Edwards College, Cambridge CB3 0DR

NEMA Conference: Early Keyboard Instruments: Repertoire, Use and Design

Keynote speaker Derek Adlam.
After the conference, at 6 pm, Dan Tidhar performed J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

Saturday, 18 November A BCS event

3.30pm. Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LW

Clavichord recital by Carole Cerasi

Sunday, 25 June

2.30pm. Sidney Sussex College Chapel, Cambridge, CB2 3HU

Telemann 250th Anniversary Festival: Francis Knights, Adrian Lenthall and Dan Tidhar (harpsichord, clavichord and organ)

Keyboard music by Telemann on the anniversary of his death.

Saturday, 17 June A BCS event

4pm. Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT

Clavichord recital by Marcia Hadjimarkos

Music by J. S. Bach (the 4th French Suite) and C. P. E. Bach (the Sonata in A major, Wq. 5/32), interspersed with works by Bartók, Haydn, Nicolas Slominsky and Prokofiev.

Sunday, 11 June

7 pm. Great Hall of the Archbishop’s Palace, Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire NG25 0HD

Clavichord recital by Douglas Hollick

Music by C. P. E. Bach, Jiri Benda and Haydn played on Douglas Hollick’s own 1909 Chickering-Dolmetsch clavichord.

Friday, 2 June

4–5pm. Gayle Mill, near Hawes, Yorkshire

Clavichord recital by Julian Perkins

The programme included works by Byrd, Froberger, Scarlatti, Herbert Howells, Stephen Dodgson and J. S. Bach. Part of the Swaledale Festival.

21–30 May

Kuopio, Finland

Sixth Nordic Historical Keyboard Festival

For more information, visit www.nordicclavichord.org

Thursday to Sunday, 25–28 May

Kirche St. Katharinen, Probsteierhagen (near Kiel), Germany

43rd Clavichordtage of the German Clavichord Society

For information see www.clavichord.info

Tuesday, 16 May

1.00–1.45pm. Bate Collection, Faculty of Music, Oxford OX1 1DB

Recital by Francis Knights playing the 1743 Hass clavichord

Sunday, 14 May

2.30–3.30pm. Long Room, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge CB3 0DF

Francis Knights (clavichord)

Fantasias by Mozart and Bach’s sons.

Saturday, 18th March

7.30pm. The Workshop, English Passage, Lewes, BN7 2AP

Clavichord Recital by Paul Simmonds

Part of the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the Lewes Workshop Series, which Paul Simmonds helped to found in 1991.

Sunday, 12th February

7.30pm. Richard King Room, Darwin College, Cambridge CB3 9EU

Francis Knights and Dan Tidhar (clavichords)

Duets by C. P. E. and W. F. Bach and J. G. Müthel.

Thursday, 26th January Supported by the BCS

7–8pm. Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London NW1 5HT

Clavichord Lecture-Recital by Steven Devine

Tuesday, 10th January A BCS/British Harpsichord Society joint event

6.30pm. Handel and Hendrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

Marie van Rhijn, clavichord and harpsichord

Works by Dieupart, Stephen Dodgson, Ligeti and Scarlatti. www.handelhendrix.org.

2016

Saturday, 19th November A BCS event

Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AT

Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-1667): a celebration.

A day of recitals, given by Benjamin Narvey, lute (12-1pm), Adrian Lenthall, clavichords (2.30-3.30pm), and Thomas Foster, harpsichord and chamber organ (4-5.30pm).

Thursday 10th to Saturday 12th November

Blackheath Halls, 23 Lee Road,London SE3 9RQ

Royal Greenwich International Early Music Festival and Exhibition.

Saturday, 10th September

Fitzwilliam College Chapel, Storey‘s Way, Cambridge CB3 0DG

Froberger 400th Anniversary Festival

Four concerts given by Francis Knights and Dan Tidhar (harpsichord, clavichord and organ), and the Cambridge Renaissance Ensemble.

Saturday, 30th July

Ryedale Festival, North Yorkshire.

Clavichord recital by Julian Perkins

Saturday 30th July to Saturday 6th August

Dartington International Summer School, Totnes, Devon.

Clavichord and harpsichord course. Carole Cerasi.

www.dartington.org

Saturday, 9 July A BCS event

4pm Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW

Clavichord recital by Terence Charlston.

Music by J. S. Bach and three ‘2016 anniversarians’: Johann Heinrich Buttstett (1666–1727), Josef Seger (1716–1782) and Johann Heinrich Rolle (1716–1785). Preceded at 2.15pm by the 21st BCS AGM.
www.oxfordquakers.org.

Friday 13th May

7.30pm St Mary Magdalene, Geddington, Northamptonshire.

Clavichord Recital by Julian Perkins.

Friday, 29 April to Monday 2nd May

Finchcocks, Goudhurst, Kent.

Pre-auction viewing of the collections.

Public viewing at Finchcocks closed after 2nd May. Catalogues and details available at www.dreweatts.com.

Saturday-Sunday, 19–20 March

Wolfson College and Jesus College Cambridge

Cambridge Keyboard Festival with clavichord recital by Francis Knights

Tuesday, 2 February

6.30pm Handel House Museum, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

Clavichord and Harpsichord recital by Steven Devine.

www.handelhouse.org

Friday, 29 January A BCS event

7.30pm United Free Church, Fore Street, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 5RP

Clavichord recital by Julian Perkins.

Works by Domenico Scarlatti and W. F. Bach. www.totnesearlymusic.org.uk.

2015

Friday, 11 December

6pm Museum, Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BS

Mersenne’s Clavichord, with Terence Charlston and Peter Bavington.

www.rcm.ac.uk/events

Sunday, 29th November

2pm BBC Radio 3

Early Music Show featuring Linda Nicholson's BCS Recital

Saturday, 3 October. A BCS event

3 pm Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT

Clavichord and tangent piano recital by Linda Nicholson

The distinguished keyboard player Linda Nicholson played a Hass clavichord made in 1767 and a tangent piano (Tangentenflügel) made in c. 1779. Her programme included works by Handel, Haydn and Mozart.

Sunday, 27 September

4 pm The Workshop, Lewes

Clavichord concert by Marcia Hadjimarkos

www.theworkshopseries.co.uk

1–5 September (Tuesday–Saturday)

Magnano (Biella), Italy

Twelfth International Clavichord Symposium

For details follow the Symposium link on the Musica Antiqua Magnano page

Tuesday, 30 June

7.30 pm. Bristol Music Club, 76 St. Paul‘s Road, Bristol BS8 1LP,

A programme of chansons from Janequin to Ravel

The programme included two short groups of keyboard pieces played by David Griffel on clavichord: chanson settings by Cavazzoni, Hernando de Cabezon and Peter Phillips, and music by Louis Couperin, Rameau and Corrette.

Saturday, 27 June. A BCS event

Napier Hall, Hide Place, near Vincent Square, London SW1P 4NJ

Free clavichord recital by Derek Adlam (4 pm), preceded by the 20th BCS AGM (2.15 pm)

A rare opportunity to hear the distinguished musician and instrument-maker Derek Adlam giving a recital in London.

Saturday, 6 June

Frederikstad, Norway

Pedal-clavichord concert with Joel Speerstra.

Tuesday, 10 March. A BCS/British Harpsichord Society joint event

6.30 pm Handel House Museum, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

John Henry, clavichord and harpsichord

Monday, 26 January (postponed from 15 December 2014)

Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Performing lost repertoires

Seventeenth-century French keyboard music from the perspective of Mersenne’s 1636 clavichord. Speaker: Terence Charlston. With illustrations performed on a reconstruction of Mersenne’s clavichord by Peter Bavington. This seminar was one of a series promoted by the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP) in association with the Institute for Musical Research (IMR).
For more information, see http://music.sas.ac.uk/events/cmpcpimr-seminars .

2014

Saturday 29–Sunday 30 November

Faculty of Music, Oxford

C. P. E. Bach Tercentenary Conference

Thursday 13 - Saturday 15 November

Greenwich, London

International Early Music Festival and Exhibition

Saturday, 1 November. A BCS event

3 pm Art Workers Guild, London

Clavichord recital by Miklós Spányi

The distinguished keyboard player and C. P. E. Bach scholar Miklós Spányi played a recital of works by C. P. E. Bach himself and some of his followers.

Thursday, 30 October.

Royal College of Music Museum, London

Lecture-recital by Miklós Spányi

Monday, 27 October.

St Gregory's Centre for Music, Canterbury

Clavichord Recital by Julian Perkins

Wednesday 13–Friday 22 August

Kuopio, Finland

Third Nordic Historical Keyboard Festival

www.nordicclavichord.org

Thursday 7–Friday 15 August

Piedmont, Italy

Corsi di Musica Antica a Magnano

http://www.MusicaAnticaMagnano.com

Thursday 7–Saturday 9 August

Parador de Mojácar, Amería, Spain

Symposium on Spanish Keyboard Music

See http://www.fimte.org/#!symposium/ctc7

Sunday 6–Saturday 12 July

Cluny, France

Clavichord Course

Led by Marcia Hadjimarkos http://www.prelude-montpellier.fr

Saturday, 28 June. A BCS event

4pm Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW

Clavichord recital by Paul Simmonds (preceded at 2pm by the 20th-anniversary AGM of the BCS)

The programme included works by C. P. E. Bach, Kuhnau and Zinck.

Thursday, 26 June

12 noon Hatchlands Park, East Clandon, near Guildford, Surrey, GU4 7RT

Recital by Ashley Solomon (flute) and Terence Charlston (clavichord)

www.cobbecollection.co.uk

Friday, 23 May

7:30 - 9 pm Friends Meeting House, York Street, Bath BA1 1NG

Peter Sykes. Clavichord Recital

Wednesday, 21 May

12 noon Hatchlands Park, East Clandon, near Guildford, Surrey, GU4 7RT

Clavichord recital by Peter Sykes

Works by J. S. and C. P. E. Bach, Beethoven and Türk played on the Cobbe Collection's Hoffmann clavichord of 1784.
www.cobbecollection.co.uk

Friday, 25th April

7.00 pm Cadogan Hall, London

Jailal Academy Of Music and Jan Gorjanc present East To West

The Jailal Academy of music presented an evening of Indian classical music, including the premiere of Jan Gorjanc’s opera, APAXNH with Julien van Mellaerts, baritone, Lisa Hilditch, clavichord and Students from Royal College of Music. See What's on, Cadogan Hall

Saturday, 29 March. A BCS event

3pm Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR

Clavichord recital by Julian Perkins

The programme included music by J. S. Bach, C.P. E. Bach, and the late Stephen Dodgson, whose Clavichord Suites were recorded by Julian in 2009.

Wednesday 12th February

8 pm Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Oxford, OX1 3BN

Music from the Court of Frederick The Great: A CPE Bach Tercentenary Concert

Fatima Lahham (recorder) and David Gerrard (harpsichord and clavichord) performed music connected to the Prussian Court.
Details.

Tuesday, 11 February A BHS / BCS event

6.30pm Handel House Museum, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

Carole Cerasi, clavichord and harpsichord recital.

In conjunction with the British Harpsichord Society and the Handel House Museum. Rondos, fantasias and sonatas from C. P. E. Bach's extraordinary output, demonstrating why, in his lifetime, he enjoyed greater celebrity than his Cantor father, J. S. Bach. An unusual opportunity to hear these works on both harpsichord and clavichord, the Empfindsamkeit instrument par excellence, in the ideal setting of the Handel House.
www.handelhouse.org

Saturday, 1 February

7.30pm The Workshop, English Passage, Lewes BN7 2AP

Clavichord and harpsichord recital by Aapo Häkkinen

Works by C. P. E. Bach and J. S. Bach.

Friday, 24th January

1:10 pm St Cecilia’s Hall, Niddry Street, Cowgate, Edinburgh EH1 1NQ

David Gerrard – Lunchtime Recital

Louis Couperin, Fischer, and CPE Bach, played on the 1709 Barton harpsichord and the 1896 Dolmetsch clavichord.

Mondays, 6th January, 3rd February and 3rd March.

1.40 - 2 pm Room 1, Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

Clavichord recitals by Federico Truffi

A new series of recitals of late fourteenth-century and early fifteenth-century Italian music. Free to Courtauld Gallery visitors (admission charge); for details visit www.courtauld.ac.uk.

2013

Friday, 13 September

Fenton House, London, NW3 6RT

Clavichord Celebratory Day, with masterclass and recital by Terence Charlston.

Celebrating the restoration of the 1925 Dolmetsch clavichord in the Benton Fletcher collection of early keyboard instruments.

4–7 September (Wednesday–Saturday)

Magnano, Italy

Eleventh International Clavichord Symposium

For details follow the Symposium link on the Musica Antiqua Magnano page

Monday–Friday, 19–23 August

Cambridge, Hillingdon (Norfolk) and London

International Organ School

Wednesday–Friday, 14–23 August

Kuopio, Finland

Second Nordic Historical Keyboard Festival

Friday–Sunday, 2–11 August

Bruges, Belgium Bruges, Belgium

International Festival of Early Music

Thursday–Monday, 25–29 July

Bate Collection, Oxford

Conference on Musical Instruments

Friday–Sunday, 19–21 July

Edinburgh

Second International Conference on Historical Keyboard Music

Monday 1 July

Room 1, The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

Medieval Music performed by Federico Truffi

Saturday, 22 June. A BCS event

4 pm Napier Hall, Hide Place, Vincent Square, London SW1P 4NJ (close to Victoria Station)

Clavichord recital by Steven Devine (preceded at 2.15 by the 2013 BCS AGM)

Admission free (donations invited). The recital included works by Frescobaldi, Froberger, Weckmann, Buxtehude and J. S. Bach (the Fifth French Suite), played on two clavichords based on historical models from the 17th and 18th centuries.

25–28 April

Schweich/Mosel

DCS 20th Anniversary Clavichord Festival

Artists: Anne Galowich, Sally Fortino, Suzana Mendes, Gerald Hambitzer, Alfred Gross, Nicole Schwindt
18th century unpublished keyboard music
Early keyboard music in Spain and Portugal
Development of keyboard music under the reign of Maximilian I (1459 - 1519)
Clavichord music in the 20th century
Historical keyboard instruments in the Hansjosten Collection
Excursion to Organs of Johann Michael Stumm (1683 - 1747)

Saturday, 27 April. A BCS event

3 pm Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW

Clavichord recital by Carole Cerasi

A programme of expressive eighteenth-century music, featuring fantasias by C. P. E. Bach, W. F. Bach, Haydn and Mozart, variations by Müthel and Haydn, and the Sonata in C minor (Hob. XVI/20) by Haydn.

2012

Sunday 14th October

16.00 The Workshop, Lewes

Julian Perkins, Clavichord Recital

http://www.theworkshopseries.co.uk/concerts.html

30th September

12.00 noon St Mary's School, Bateman Street, Cambridge

Julian Perkins , Clavichord Recital

Cambridge Early Music

Saturday–Sunday 29–30 September

11 am Finchcocks Musical Museum, Goudhurst, Kent, TN17 1HH

Finchcocks Festival open weekend events, including a clavichord recital by Derek Adlam on Sunday at 11 am, sponsored by the BCS

Friday–Sunday 28–30 September

Maison des Voûtes, Souvigny, Allier, France

Clavichord workshop with Marcia Hadjimarkos: music of J.S. Bach and C.P.E. Bach, Mozart and Haydn

e-mail mop3@wanadoo.fr or see www.souvigny-festival.com

Friday–Sunday 28–30 September

Leiden, South Holland, The Netherlands

Dutch Clavichord Society symposium: 'Extraordinary Clavichord Sounds"

www.clavichordgenootschap.nl

30th August

10.00 - 18.30 Utrecht or Cothen (to be decided).

Dutch Medieval Keyboard Meeting 2012

A meeting around keyboards in medieval style: positive organ, portative organ (organetto), clavisimbalum, clavichord, clavicytherium. With demonstrations of the instruments, lectures, musical presentations.

Wednesday–Friday, 15–24 August

Kuopio, Finland.

Nordic Historical Keyboard Festival

www.nordicclavichord.org

27 June (Wednesday)

8pm Wokingham Town Hall, Market Place, Wokingham, Berks, RG40 1AS

Clavichord recital by Richard Smith

A programme of North European keyboard music.

23 June (Saturday) A BCS event

4pm Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW

Clavichord recital by Marcia Hadjimarkos

The recital followed the BCS 2012 Annual General Meeting..
The programme ranged from an English Suite by J. S. Bach (No. 2 in A minor) to John Cage's Suite for Toy Piano (1948), by way of a Mozart sonata (F major, KV300k), Romanian Folkdances by Bartók, and the Petite Suite for Clavichord by Philippe Forget, a prizewinning entry in the BCS 2004 Clavichord Composition Awards.

1–4 June ( Friday–Monday)

West Dean College, near Chichester

Performing 17th century music on the clavichord

A course taught by Paul Simmonds.

31 May (Thursday) An event sponsored by BCS

7.30 pm The Workshop, English's Passage, Lewes

The Musical Pleasure Garden: Keyboard Music from 17th Century Germany

A clavichord recital by Paul Simmonds

17–20 May (Thursday–Sunday)

Bad Köstritz, Germany

Part 4 of the German Clavichord Society’s J. S. Bach Festival

www.clavichord.info

1 May (Tuesday)

12 noon Hatchlands Park, near Guildford

Clavichord recital by Menno van Delft

28 April (Saturday) A BCS event

3pm Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1 3AT

Recital by Linda Nicholson, playing 18th-century clavichords by Lundborg and Hass

13 March (Tuesday) A joint BCS/British Harpsichord Society event

6.30pm Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

Recital by Terence Charlston: "A Choice Collection": English clavichord and harpsichord music in the 17th century

Music by Blow, Byrd, Bryne, Draghi and Purcell, played on clavichord and harpsichord. Early booking essential.

9–11 March

AMUZ, Antwerp

inPRIMETIME, a series of clavichord events.

Recitals by Spányi, Verhelst and Van Delft, and a public masterclass with Spányi.

5 March (Monday)

7pm Banqueting House, Whitehall, London SW1

Clavichord and fortepiano recital by Susan Alexander-Max

Banqueting House website

24 January (Tuesday)

7.30 pm Bristol Music Club

Concert including keyboard music and songs with clavichord.

Programme

2011

11–13 November (Friday–Sunday)

Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich

International Early Music Festival and Exhibition

5 November (Saturday)

St Giles’ Church, Barbican, London

RCO London Organ Forum: ‘The organist at home: exploring the pedal harpsichord’

with Dalibor Miklavčič and John Kitchen.

30 October (Sunday)

4pm Concert-gallery Pianofort’ino, Basel, Switzerland

Clavichord recital by Sally Fortino: Clavichord music from Leipzig

30 October (Sunday)

5pm Abbey Church Schoenenwerd, Canton Solothurn, Switzerland

Clavichord recital by Paul Simmonds: Frische Clavier-Früchte: 17th-century German music

29 October (Saturday) A BCS event

2.15 and 4.15pm Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW

Robert Woolley playing Book 1 of Bach’s Das Wohltemperierte Clavier complete in two separate recitals.

20 October (Thursday)

6.30-7.30pm Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

Perilous Toye (New compositions for solo amplified clavichord and ensemble with Olie Brice on Contrabass, Leon Michener on Clavichord and electronics, and ‘mystery guest’ vocalist. )

29 September (Thursday)

5.15 pm Museum of Instruments, The Royal College of Music

The poetic and musical origins of the German Lied

Songs by Gellert sung by Norbert Meyn and accompanied on the RCM Dolmetsch clavichord by Terence Charlston.

6–10 September (Tuesday–Saturday)

Magnano, Italy

Tenth International Clavichord Symposium.

Friday, 22 July

3.30pm Palace Hotel, Palace Road, Buxton

Clavichord recital by Julian Perkins: Book 2 of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier

7 July (Thursday) A BCS event (for BCS members only).

2.30 - 6.pm London SW4

Visit to Linda Nicholson’s instrument collection

www.lindanicholson.co.uk.

1–3 July (Friday–Sunday)

Edinburgh

Conference on Historical Keyboard Music

27 May (Friday)

7.45 - 8.45pm Friends Meeting House, York Street, Bath, BA1 1NG

Free Clavichord recital by Peter Sykes.

25 May (Wednesday)

12.00 noon. Hatchlands Park

Clavichord recital by Peter Sykes.

21 May (Saturday) A BCS event. The recital is open to all, admission free.

2.15 and 4pm Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT

BCS AGM

The 16th BCS AGM (2.15), followed at 4pm by a clavichord recital given by Peter Sykes.
J.S. Bach, W.F Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Haydn, Beethoven.

12 March (Saturday)

7.30pm The Workshop, Lewes

Recital: German Music for the Clavichord by Miklós Spányi

8 February (Tuesday) A joint BCS and BHS event

6.30pm Handel House Museum, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

Handel in the Attic

Julian Perkins, clavichord and harpsichord: A joint event with the British Harpsichord Society.

2010

20 November 2010 (Saturday) A BCS event

2.15 - 5.30 Garden Room, Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, London W1K 2PA

A BCS Clavichord Afternoon

A recital by David Griffel of Spanish music from Cabezón to Cabanilles, preceded by an illustrated talk on clavichord recordings by Garry Broughton and an introduction to the recital by John Collins.

5 June 2010 (Saturday) A BCS event

4pm: Quaker Meeting House,43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW

Clavichord Recital by Susan Alexander-Max

The BCS AGM at 2.15pm was followed at 4pm by a clavichord recital given by Susan Alexander-Max. The programme included J. S. Bach’s English Suite No. 2 in A minor, and the Sixth Sonata, in C minor, from J. C. Bach’s Op. 5 set.