The Harmonious Blacksmith

The Harmonious Blacksmith

Handel
Suite - The Harmonious Blacksmith

Bach
Italian Concerto
French Suite No.5 (exc)

Rameau
La Poule
Musette et Tambourin

Daquin
Le Coucou

Gibbons
Praeludium

Byrd
The Bells

A. Holbourne
Nowells Galliard

L Couperin
Le Pièmontoise
Chaconne

F Couperin
Les Baricades Mistérieuses

D Scarlatti
The Cat's Fugue

Arne
Gigue

P. Paradies
Toccata in A

Mozart
Fantasia D minor
Rondo alla Turca

Robert Aldwinckle, harpsichord

Harpsichords by John Horniblow

Track ListingTimeMP3
Handel: Suite – The Harmonious Blacksmith (Suite No.5, HWV 430)
1Prelude1:55
2Allemande4:04
3Courante2:16
4Air & Variations4:49
5Bach: Italian Concerto (1st movement Allegro)4:29The Harmonious Blacksmith - Bach: Italian Concerto (1st movement Allegro)
Bach: French Suite No.5 (exc)
6Gavotte1:26
7Bourrée1:32
8Loure2:33
9Gigue3:54
10Rameau: La Poule5:18The Harmonious Blacksmith - Rameau: La Poule
11Rameau: Musette et Tambourin3:26
12Daquin: Le Coucou2:19
13Gibbons: Praeludium1:22
14Byrd: The Bells5:55
15A. Holbourne: Nowells Galliard1:24The Harmonious Blacksmith - A. Holbourne: Nowells Galliard
16L Couperin: Le Pièmontoise1:24
17L Couperin: Chaconne2:33
18F Couperin: Les Baricades Mistérieuses1:54
19D Scarlatti: The Cat's Fugue4:25
20Arne: Gigue2:21The Harmonious Blacksmith - Arne: Gigue
21P. Paradies: Toccata in A2:05
22Mozart: Fantasia D minor5:31
23Mozart: Rondo alla Turca3:56

"Robert Aldwinckle is an accomplished player, well known beyond early-music circles. He offers here a potpourri of familiar harpsichord pieces from the 17th and 18th centuries, intended as an introduction, which he performs on two replica instruments built by John Horniblow. The choice of repertoire ...is confidently performed... many will be delighted to find so many of the harpsichord 'classics' gathered together on a single budget-price CD."
(Gramophone)