Email
Serenata of Santa Fe’s harpsichord recital next Sunday afternoon will feel like a slice of heaven for guest artist Kathleen McIntosh.
“I love doing solo concerts,” said McIntosh, who lives in Santa Fe but performs worldwide. “I spent the whole summer looking at tons of music. I threw a lot of things out, but I also found enough good material for another recital.”
“Harpsichord-Centric” is a concert featuring lesser-known works by well-known composers and well-known pieces by lesser-known composers.
 |
||
|
If you go WHAT: Serenata of Santa Fe presents harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh WHEN: 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20 WHERE: Scottish Rite Center, 463 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe HOW MUCH: $25 general admission, $20 seniors, $10 students, $5 youths 6-18. Tickets are available at www.serenataofsantafe.org or at the door. For more information call 505-989-7988 |
|
|
McIntosh will begin the performance with a chaconne by J.K.F. Fisher, who lived from 1665 to 1746.
“Fisher is the earliest composer I’m playing,” she said. “He was greatly admired by Bach.”
Bach’s lesser-known English Suite in G Minor will be played during the first half of the concert. “I wanted to include one work by Bach on the program, and this is a favorite of mine,” McIntosh added.
Sonata in D by Mateo Albéniz, who is not related to the well-known composer Isaac Albéniz, will open the second half of the recital. Albéniz was a late-18th-century Spanish priest and composer who wrote a few works for the harpsichord. Sonata in D is the only piece of his that is played publicly.
Following the unknown Albéniz sonata are two better-known sonatas by the revered Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti.
Other sonatas on the program are by late Baroque Spanish composer Antonio Soler and 18th-century Spanish composer and organist Manuel Blasco de Nebra.
“I love every single piece on the program,” said McIntosh. “Not one of them is a dud.”
McIntosh will bring her large French harpsichord to the Scottish Rite Center for the recital. This instrument, which was created by California instrument maker John Phillips in 1994, is a copy of a five-octave 1707 Dumont harpsichord.
“This harpsichord has such a rich tone,” McIntosh explained. “It has a homogeneous orchestral sound not found in most French harpsichords. Mine has three distinct registers.”
