The Hitchcock Spinet
JOHN LOEILLET (1680-1730): Lesson I for the Spinet, JOHANN MATTHESON (1681-1764): Suite No. 7 from Pieces de clavecin, GEORG PHILIP TELEMANN (1681-1767): Trio X from Essercizii Musici, 3 selections from Der getreue Music-Meister, FRANCESCO GEMINIANI (1687-1762): Rules for Playing in a True Taste: An English Tune, FRANCESCO MARIA VERACINI (1690-1768): from Sonate accademiche, Op. 2 - No. 12, CARL FRIEDRICH ABEL (1723-1787): Trio in G, A5:4A, CHARLES BURNEY (1726-1814): Sonata III in D.
Catalogue Number: 09W016
Label: Genuin
Reference: GEN 20696
Format: CD
Price: $18.98
Description: Only a few of these sonorous and extravagant keyboard instruments have survived. The multi-stringed spinet No. 1379 from the Telemann Museum in Hamburg, with its black keys elaborately inset with white ivory, can now be heard for the first time in a recording. Anke Dennert (1730 Hitchcock spinet), Gabriele Steinfeld (violin). Simone Eckert (viola da gamba).
