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 "Ah ! vous dirai-je maman"  Catherine Perrin - CLAVECIN / HARPSICHORD Clavecin - Jacob et Abraham Kirkman 1772 ACD2 2301 |
This instrument was donated to the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur de Montréal by the Gordon Jeffery Music Trust. The late Ontario lawyer Gordon Jeffery was a patron of the arts, musician and instrument collector. At his death in 1986, four of his friends founded the Gordon Jeffery Music Trust in accordance with his wishes to continue his interests and preserve his instruments.
The Trust agreed to the suggestion from Ralph and Pauline Aldrich that the instrument should be donated to Montreal.
In 2000, through the initiative of Catherine Perrin, who obtained the support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, the Kirckman instrument was repaired by the harpsichord maker Wes Beaupre. The instrument still requires new jacks, however, which would permit a more precise, stable voicing.
The 1772 Kirckman harpsichord has a stop-changing mechanism which was developed and used by the two great London harpsichord makers, Shudi and Kirckman, as of 1765. The mechanism is activated by means of a pedal that allows the performer to switch rapidly from the instruments loudest sound (three combined stops) to its most intimate combination (a single stop on the lower manual and the nasal, metallic and somewhat melancholic stop on the upper manual). This shift is used several times in the first movement of the Johann Christian Bach duo sonata 161.
The instrument also has a unique range which none of the period repertoire appears to exploit: there is an additional fifth above the usual five octaves (FF-f'''). This unusual, extremely high register can be heard in a short improvised cadenza shortly before the end of the second movement of the same work [7].
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791) 1 12 Variations sur "Ah ! vous dirai-je muman" K..265 / 12 Variations on "Ah ! vous dirais-je maman" K .265 9:09 JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809) Sonate en fa majeur Hob. XVI:23 / Sonata in F Major Hob. XVI:23 16:24 2 [Sans indication:: Without indication] (5:04) 3 Adagio (7:10) 4 Finale: Presto (4:10) WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 5 Fantaisic en ré mineur K. 397 / Fantasia in D Minor K. 397 4:59 JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH (1735-1782) Duo en la majeur, op.18 no. 5 / Duet in A Major Op.18 No.5 9:12 6 Allegretto (6:12) 7 Tempo di minuetto (3:00) (AVEC / WITH ROBERT SIGMUND, SECONDO) WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Sonate en si bémol majeur K. 570 / Sonata in B flat Major K 570 16:28 8 Allegro (5:46) 9 Adagio (7:00) 10 Allegretto (3:42) WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 11 Allemande en do mineur, tirée du K.399 / Allemande in C Minor from K.399 5:11 |
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