Jos van Immerseel plays historic Flemish harpsichords
Harpsichord built by Joannes Petrus Bull 1779
Harpsichord built by Ioannes Daniel Dulcken 1747
Virginal built by Joannes Couchet 1650
Released 1978 by CBS by Columbia Records CBS Inc. AL/BL34632
First release 1976 by CBS 73554
Front cover design: Paula Scher
Cover art: John Alcorn
Library of Congress catalog card number 77-751075 applies to this album.

Side 1
00:00 W.A. Mozart: Alla Turca (from Sonata in A Major, K. 331)
03:44 Cl. Balbastre: La Malesherbe
08:05 Cl. Balbastre: La Lugeac
10:10 Cl. Balbastre: La d’Hericourt
14:07 J. Pz. Sweelinck: Malle Sijmen
15:35 J. Bull: Why aske you
17:09 P. Philips: Galiarda dolorosa

Side 2
19:45 D. Scarlatti: Sonata K. 380 (L. 23)
23:36 Beÿaert-Boek van J. de Gruÿtters: Contre-danse
24:36 Beÿaert-Boek van J. de Gruÿtters: Carillon van Duÿnkerke
25:17 Beÿaert-Boek van J. de Gruÿtters: Minuet
26:35 Beÿaert-Boek van J. de Gruÿtters: March
27:36 J.S. Bach: BWV 998 Prelude
30:54 J.S. Bach: BWV 998 Fugue
38:00 J.S. Bach: BWV 998 Allegro

Some pictures of the instruments are no part of the vinyl release and copyright by the City of Antwerpen, Vleeshuis museum.

Jos van Immerseel was born in Antwerp
in 1945 and attended the
Antwerp Conservatory, where he was
awarded first prizes for his virtuosity
on three keyboard instruments:
piano, organ, and harpsichord. He
continued his studies with the Canadian
harpsichordist Kenneth Gilbert,
who urged him to specialize in that
instrument, which complemented Immerseel’s
already more than casual
– interest in older music. He had also
honed this aspect of his art as conductor
of the Antwerp Collegium
Musicum and the Alma Musica.
At the Conservatory, Immerseel
began composing and writing articles
on music and organizing concerts and
lectures given both in Belgium and
other parts of the Continent. In his
belief that the “old music” is really
the “new music,” he considers that
his most important duty is “passing
on the original musical ideas of the
composer to the listener …. ”
Immerseel now carries on the tradition
of the harpsichord as a teacher
at the Conservatory. With that institution’s
facilities available at Antwerp,
along with the resources at the
Vleeshuis Museum, the tradition of
harpsichord technique continues, as
does the restoration of the instruments
themselves, and the historical
importance of this work has been
rewarded ,by a growing international
reputation. This was underscored in
1973 when Irnrnerseel was named
first laureate at the Concours International
de Clavecin de Paris.

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