Sylvia Marlowe harpsichord (no type or builder mentioned in the documentation)
For the composition Serenade: next to Sylvia, Claude Monteux, flute; Harry Shulman, oboe; Bernard
Greenhouse, cello
Released 1960 (not indicated in the documentation, source Library of Congress) by Decca DL 710021
Decca gold label series.
Program notes by Sylvia Marlowe on slipcase
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: R 60-1073

Thanks to Robert Tifft the webmaster of the European Revival Harpsichordists ( for providing all the documentation and already cleaned up acoustic material to make this publication possible.

Side A
Ben Weber
Serenade Op. 39, for Flute, Oboe, Cello and Harpsichord
00:01 I. Alla marcia
02:15 II. Andante espressivo
05:05 III. Adagio teneramente
06:45 IV. Moderato allegro, poco maestoso

Harold Shapero
Sonata No. 1 in D major
10:05 I. Allegro preciso
12:11 II. Poco adagio
15:25 III. Minuetto
16:23 IV. Presto

John Lessard
Toccata
18:53 Moderato
21:59 Allegro vivace

Side B
Vittorio Rieti
Sonata all’Antica
25:00 I. Allegro alla giga
29:41 II. Adagio
32:40 III. Rigaudon

Virgil Thompson
34:48 Cantabile: A portrait of Nicolas de Chatelain
Sonata No. 4
38:06 I. Allegro
40:14 II. Adagio
42:24 III. Vivace

Arthur Berger
43:02 Intermezzo
45:12 Bagatelle: Risoluto con moto

About Sylvia Marlowe
Sylvia Marlowe made her American debut in a series of coast-to-coast broadcasts featuring the entire Well-Tempered Clavier of Bach. Since then, she has appeared with such organizations as the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston, Chicago and Seattle Symphony Orchestras and L’Orchestre National de Paris. Her solo recitals have been supplemented by concerts with her own chamber ensemble, the Harpsichord Quartet. With the conscientiousness of the true artist, Miss Marlowe has taken pains to inform herself of the correct and
complex performance traditions of the music she plays. Her distinguished career has earned not only the affection of a world-wide public, but the esteem of her fellow-musiciansas well. Miss Marlowe is music director of the Harpsichord Music Society, an organization whose activities include the commissioning of new works for the harpsichord, the establishment of scholarships for advanced study of the harpsichord, and the bringing together of players and musicologists for discussion of performance practice of older music.

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