Purcell's most important collection of keyboard music appeared posthumously in 1696 entitled A Choice Collection of Lessons for the Harpsichord and contains his eight suites for keyboard. In 1720 Handel published his Suites de pièces, a representative corpus of a genre composed between Hamburg and London. The performance of this harpsichord repertoire on the piano offers a new insight into the greatness of this music.
Varvara, piano
Program
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Suite for harpsichord in G minor Z 661
Chaconne for harpsichord in G minor ZT 680
Suite for harpsichord in C major Z 666
Ground for harpsichord in C minor ZD 221 [attributed to William Croft in other sources].
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Chaconne for harpsichord in G major HWV 435
Suite for harpsichord in E major HWV 430
Suite for harpsichord in G minor HWV 432
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Aria "Schafe konnen sicher weiden" from Cantata BWV 208 (arrangement for piano by Egon Petri)
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