Temple Painter, harpsichordist
The harpsichord used in this recording was built in 1960 by John
Challis of Detroit, Michigan. The instrument has two manuals and
three sets of strings, varying in register and timber.
Released 1962 by Artia-Parliament Industries ARTIA ALP(S)-198 N.Y. USA

Side 1
00:00 band 1: BYRD Pavana
band 2: HANDEL Suite No XI in D Minor
02:04 Allemande-
03:57 Courante
05:31 Sarabande
10:28 Gigue
11:31 band 3: CHAMBONNIERES Chaconne
17:15 band 4: HANDEL Air & Variations in B Flat

Side 2
band 1: BOATRITE Suite for Harpsichord
Under the name of the composer the suite is already published at YouTube without the failing of the beautiful pavan.
22:23 Ricercare
25:10 Pavan Sorry this track was beyond repair but left it in for the balance of the suite.
26:56 Toccata
28:28 Pastorale-
29:55 Chaconne
band 2: SCARLATTI Two Sonatas
32:22 G Minor, K. 8
34:50 E Major, K. 380
38:50 band 3: PURCELL Ground in C Minor
band 4: J. S. BACH
41:57 Prelude &
43:00 Fugue in G Major (W.T.C. I)

THE PERFORMER
Temple Painter became keenly interested in 17th and 18th century
keyboard music while studying the organ at Lo Curtis Institute of
Musi in Philadelphia. This pursuit led inevitably to his development
as a harpsichordist. In this capacity, Mr. Painter has appeared as a
recitalist · and solo artist with chamber and orchestral ensembles
receiving critical recognition and acclaim:
A deep interest in the music of this century has led Mr. Painter
to commission new works for the harpsichord. Harold Boatrites’
SUITE for HARPSICHORD, found on this record, is one of such
works.
Mr. Painter now resides and teaches in Philadelphia.

QUOTE:
Art never makes genuine progress. From Phidias to Rembrandt is a march, not an advance. Art, as art, regarded in isolation, goes neither forward nor backward.”
The changing shapes of poetry are only waves on the surface of the Beautiful,
ministering to human movement.
Art does not depend on any perfection as yet unattained, on any change in language,
on any death or birth of a means of expression.
It is just as pure, complete and divine in a state of savagery as in the highest civilization.
Such is the law, so little recognized, of art.”
Victor Hugo

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