GEORGIAN HARPSICHORD MUSIC

GERALD GIFFORD

Shudi & Broadwood Harpsichord, c. 1775

George Frideric Handel:	Overture Ptolomy
Thomas Chilcot:	Suite the Third in Bb major
Niccolo Pasquali:	Lesson IV in A major
Thomas Erskine:	The Duchess of Gordon’s Minuet
	Lord Stanley’s Minuet
Pietro Domenico Paradies:	Sonata VI in A major
Thomas Augustine Arne:	Sonata I in F major
Johann Christian Bach:	Sonata I in Bb major (Op. 5)
Franz Joseph Haydn:	Sonata in C major (after Hob. XIV:4)

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Played on Gerald Gifford’s own historic Shudi & Broadwood harpsichord, now on long-term loan to The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

Reviews include:

‘This is a recital of harpsichord music chosen to suit a particular instrument: an exceptionally beautiful Shudi and Broadwood of c. 1775 now in the possession of the recitalist … The outer movements of Haydn’s Sonata in C are all vitality and virtuosity, while the Menuetto and Trio are for connoisseurs … Gifford plays all of these works with a finely controlled technique, immaculate ornamentation and a breadth of expression tailored to the era and the instrument’. (Gramophone)

‘There is not a single dull moment in this collection … the recording is a delight from beginning to end’. (The Tablet)

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BACH FROM WALSINGHAM

GERALD GIFFORD (Organ)

St Mary and All Saints’ Church, Little Walsingham, Norfolk, England

	Concerto in C major (BWV 594) after Vivaldi’s Op 7 No 5
	Concerto in G major (BWV 592) after a Concerto by Johann Ernst
	Concerto in C major (BWV 595) after a Concerto by Johann Ernst
	Concerto in A minor (BWV 593) after Vivaldi’s Op 3 No 6
	Concerto in D minor (BWV 596) after Vivaldi’s Op 3 No 11
	Chorale Prelude: Nun komm’, der Heiden Heiland (BWV 659)
	Prelude and Fugue in Eb major (‘St. Anne’) (BWV 552)

Digitally remastered by David Wright of Gemini Sound in 2007 from analogue recordings originally issued by Vista Records, licensed from Andrew Parker.

Reviews include:

‘Gerald Gifford is a stylish player, with a nice blend of verve, brilliance and sensitivity … highly recommended’.
(The Musical Times)

‘Gifford’s sparkling playing affords sheer enjoyment as he brings out the detail of the complex contrapuntal textures on this lively and responsive organ’. (Gramophone)

‘Gerald Gifford’s handling of the five lighthearted yet technically demanding transcriptions … combines superb outer strength with subtle inner percipience. He has the happy knack of transforming thorough-going scholarship, exemplified by his own excellent sleeve-note, into what is heard, thus fulfilling both the spirit and letter of the music’. (Classical Music)

THE MULLINER BOOK

GERALD GIFFORD

Chamber Organ and Harpsichord

The programme of this recording features works by Allwood, Blitheman, Redford, Tallis and others, and has been designed to introduce listeners to a representative selection of organ and harpsichord music contained in The Mulliner Book, one of the most important keyboard manuscripts to survive from 16th-century England.

The recording features a chamber organ built by Lammermuir Pipe Organs in 1993, and a harpsichord built by Clayson & Garrett in 1975, after an original by Ridolfi. Both instruments are described and illustrated in the Concert Instruments section of the Concerts and Recitals page of this website.

Here is the setting of an anonymous madrigal ‘I smile to see how you devise’ played on the chamber organ

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Reviews include:

‘This is a most important and successful recording. Over the years a few discs have featured music from The Mulliner Book but none have approached Gerald Gifford’s in comprehensiveness of coverage and integrity of performance. … The whole programme is a delight’. (The Consort)