Released 1985 by Harpsichord Music Archive HMS 901
From Live Concerts (January 12, 1972 and March 30, 1976).
Harpsichords by William Dowd
All arrangements © Kenneth Cooper 1985
The Harpsichord Music Archive, 405 West 118th Street/51, New York, N.Y. 10027
This recording was sponsored, in part, by a grant from the
Harpsichord Music Society, Sylvia Marlowe, founder
Production: Kenneth Cooper
Mastering: David Hancock
Cover Design: Remo Cosentino
Photos: Sylvia Marlowe (Anonymous), Kenneth Cooper by R. Cosentino
Side 1
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971): Eight Easy Pieces (1915) (PD in USA)
00:00 March
01:11 Waltz.
03:17 Polka
Five Easy Pieces:
04:14 Andante.
05:23 Espanola
06:19 Balalaika.
07:04 Napolitana.
08:12 Galop
Sylvia Marlowe and Kenneth Cooper (1976)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945): From Mikrokosmos (1940)(ASCAP)
09:59 Staccato (No. 124)
11:01 From the Diary of a Fly (No. 142)
Kenneth Cooper (1972)
12:24 Igor Stravinsky: Scherzo (1902) (PD)
Sylvia Marlowe (1976, Second U.S. performance)
14:56 Virgil Thomson (b. 1896): Walking Song (1945) (ASCAP)
Sylvia Marlowe and Kenneth Cooper (1976)
Side 2
17:51 Erik Satie: (1866-1925) Trois Morceaux en forme de Poire (1903) (BIEM)
Maniere de Commencement
Prolongation du meme
I. Lentement
II. Enleve
Ill. Brutal
En plus
Redite
Sylvia Marlowe and Kenneth Cooper (1972)
François Couperin (1668·1733): Three Duets (Livre III,1722)
32:17 La Juillet (Ordre XIV) (PD)
34:08 Musette de Tavemi (Ordre XV)
38:11 Musette de Choisi (Ordre XV)
Kenneth Cooper and Sylvia Marlowe (1972)
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.
SYLVIA MARLOWE (1909-1981), in the course of a long and distinguished career, appeared throughout America, Europe and the Far East in solo recitals, chamber music concerts, and as soloist with major symphony orchestras. Performer, scholar, teacher, Miss Marlowe commissioned over thirty works for the harpsichord, edited and annotated selected keyboard works of Franc;ois Couperin, and recorded major harpsichord works both old and new. Her performances have been hailed as “Authoritative, masterful, deeply poetic.” Miss Marlowe was the founder of the Harpsichord Music Society, Inc. and has been named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. A native of New York City, she lived there and in Connecticut for many years with her husband, the late painter Leonid Berman. In the words of historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the lady who loved society, spoke French and was the “sparkling center of her salon on East 60th Street” blended “twentieth century urgency with eighteenth-century elegance.” Among her former students can be counted some of America’s most distinguished harpsichordists: Gerald Ranck, Shirley Matthews, Doris Omstein, Hendrik Broekman, Pamela Cook and Kenneth Cooper.
KENNETH COOPER-internationally acclaimed harpsichordist
and pianist-is one of America’s foremost specialists in music of
the eighteenth century. Holding a PhD in Musicology from Columbia University, he has published articles for such journals as The Musical Quarterly, Current Musicology, Playbill, High Fidelity and Opus, and for the German encyclopedia M.C.C. Mr. Cooper has
resurrected dozens of eighteenth-century works, from Bach sonatas to Handel operas, using his combined talents as scholar, performer and improviser to bring them to life. Kenneth Cooper has been regularly featured at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Charleston Spoleto Chamber Music Festival, and as guest artist with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society appearing in their 1984 Bach Festival “Live From Lincoln Center.” He is on the faculties of The Mannes College of Music, The Manhattan School of Music, Montclair State College and Columbia University.
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