Canaanite Fantasy No. 3. Par LEEF YINAM. Similiar to its two sister-works, ELEGY looks back to the past and to ancient musical colors and ideals, combining musical ornamentations of nature within contemporary Western modes of expression. The composer accounts that 'the most interesting and attractive challenge for me was to try to relate to the special characteristics of the harpsichord - its rather confined range of dynamics on the one hand, and the great richness of the single tone on the other - and to attempt to formulate a contemporary view towards the historical and stylistic connotations of this instrument. The work combines some typical music structures, such as repetitions and sequential patterns, within ageneral improvisatory feeling, and leads, as the climax resolves, to a short quation from J.S. Bach's 'The Art of Fugue', which gradually disintegrates into the central motif of the work. The title ELEGY invokes a looking backwards, with a sense of longing and maybe even sadness, to a world of sounds that has perhaps lost its glitter, to a past era, but not without a certain hope for its renewal.'/ Répertoire / Clavecin

Par FROBERGER / SCHOTT. The first volume of the second tome of the Complete Harpsichord Work by Johann Jakob Froberger, this volume is a set of sixteen pieces for Harpsichord. Edited by Howard Schott, the book has its preface and information in French, English and German. It features sixteen pieces features eight Toccatas, five Capriccios, a Fantasia and two Ricercars. The works are of medium difficulty and can be played by intermediate players. Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667) was a German Baroque composer. He was a really famous musician amongst his peers and influenced many of them./ Répertoire / Clavecin

Par BLOW JOHN. Selected from Musica Britannica Volume 73. Edited by Robert Klakowich. Amateur and professional players with an interest in Baroque repertoire will welcome this generous selection of 25 harpsichord pieces by John Blow (1649-1708). Blow stands as the dominant figure of English harpsichord composition in the late seventeenth century, the master of an individual school that merged continental influences into a vigorous native tradition of keyboard writing. There are preludes, dances and grounds in this anthology, which is selected from Volume 73 of Musica Britannica, and also includes advice on ornamentation and a comprehensive editorial note. Along with its companionvolume of 16 organ pieces, K43, this collection is an important addition to Stainer & Bell's landmark Early English Keyboard series./ Répertoire / Clavecin