Partita No. 1 for Harpsichord
February 27, 2010, Paul Cienniwa, Newport Baroque, Newport, Rhode Island
March 28, 2010, The Music of First Church Boston. May 19, 2010, Brown Hall at New England Conservatory. January 16, 2012, First Church Boston. Paul Cienniwa, harpsichordist
Partita No. 1 is dedicated to Paul Cienniwa, who gave its world premiere on the Newport Baroque concerts in January 2010. This work shows a kinship with 18th-century keyboard music, especially the works of Domenico Scarlatti. Each movement presents a different expressive “take” on the same material: Overture–dry wit; Courante–restrained charm; Air–majestic song; Sarabande–introspection; and Toccata–slapstick bravado.
[performance] Boston Musical Intelligencer, March 31, 2010. (recording)
“A Sarabande by Larry Thomas Bell, bridges Rameau and Sweelinck by crystallizing their music in modern, angular terms, and then making slight adjustments. It’s music that Bach would have listened to carefully.”– Laurence Vittes, Huffington Post
[recording} Larry Bell: In A Garden of Dreamers, Paul Cienniwa, harpsichordist, Albany Records (Troy 1308/09) Sarabande recorded by Paul Cienniwa, Harpsichord Music for A Thin Place. Whaling City Sound CD (WCS 059)
More Solo Instruments Works
Prelude and Fugue in a minor for organ solo, Opus 195
Prelude and Fugue in F major for organ solo, Opus 188
Prelude and Fugue in C major for organ solo, Opus 187
Prelude and Fugue in F major for organ solo, Opus 186
Prelude and Fugue in b minor for organ solo, Opus 185
Prelude and Fugue in A major for organ solo, Opus 184
Prelude and Fugue in Eb major for organ solo, Opus 182
Prelude and Fugue in E major for organ solo, Opus 180
Prelude and Fugue in c minor for organ solo, Opus 178
Prelude and Fugue in D major for organ solo , Opus 177
Chorale Fantasy and Fugue in e minor for organ solo, Opus 175
Prelude and Fugue in F Minor for Organ, Opus 148