Abstract
Collectively, these five recordings survey the landscape of English keyboard music of the late 17th to the early 19th centuries. On all but one the use of historical instruments is an essential element, and these instruments are generously illustrated and discussed—more so, indeed, than the artists who perform on them. The instrument was clearly the starting point for Steven Devine's Portrait of an English harpsichord (Finchcocks Press FPCD004, rec 2005, 72ʹ). The portrait here is of a double-manual Kirckman dating from 1756 (now in the Finchcocks collection at Goudhurst, Kent) and the recording presents a snapshot of English harpsichord music from around this date. Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard music was still the dominant influence on English keyboard composers at this time (42 of his sonatas had been published in London in 1738) and Devine plays pieces from collections by James Nares (1747), Thomas Arne (1756) and Joseph Kelway (1759) which...
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