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Peter Watchorn |
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Peter Watchorn is an internationally
recognized harpsichordist,
organist, writer and artistic advisor to various period instrument
ensembles. One of the 1985 recipients of America’s premier Early
Music prize, the Erwin Bodky Memorial Award, he has enjoyed a
distinguished career in the field of Historically Informed
Performance for over thirty years. In addition he
is well known as a
recording producer, and has served in this capacity for nearly all
of Musica Omnia’s releases. He graduated from Boston University in
1995 with the Doctor of Musical
Arts degree. A student of the
Viennese harpsichordist,
Isolde Ahlgrimm, he wrote her
official
biography, due for publication in 2007 by Ashgate Publishing,
London. He has made numerous recordings, and has achieved
international recognition for his interpretations of
the music of J.
S. Bach.
more:
Peter Watchorn
(b.1957) has studied the harpsichord, its history, repertoire and
construction in great detail since 1974. He has achieved an
international reputation for his consistently high standard of
performance. In 1985 he was presented with the Erwin Bodky Memorial
Award by the Cambridge Society of Early Music for his performance of
J. S. Bach’s solo harpsichord music. Born in Newcastle, NSW
(Australia), he moved to Cambridge, MA in 1987, becoming a dual
Australian/US citizen in 2005. He has continued to enjoy an active
career in The USA and Europe as performer, scholar, recording artist
and participant in several ensembles. He is also noted as a
harpsichord builder and researcher, his most recent efforts
resulting in collaboration with Zuckermann Harpsichords
International in re-constructing the 1642 Hans Moermans
double-manual harpsichord, now in the Russell Collection,
Edinburgh.From 1985-1992 Peter Watchorn studied with Isolde Ahlgrimm
in Vienna and has written extensively about her life and career. His
full-length biography of her,
Isolde Ahlgrimm,
Vienna & the Early Music Revival
appeared in 2007 (Ashgate
Publishing, Aldershot, UK). Dr. Watchorn was a contributing artist
to the 2000 Edition Bachakademie (Hänssler-
Klassik),
recording the seven harpsichord Toccatas (BWV 910-916) and the
seventeen Concertos arranged by Bach after other composers (BWV
972-987; 592a). With the award-winning recording label,
Musica
Omnia, which he founded in 2000, and for which he
serves as producer and board president, he has embarked on separate
projects devoted to the immense keyboard outputs of J. S. Bach and
the English Renaissance composer, Dr. John Bull, the second shared
with Mahan Esfahani. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from
Boston University (1995). His articles have been published in
professional journals such as Musicology Australia, Early
Music and Harpsichord &
Fortepiano.
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Johann Sebastian Bach |
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Six Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord, BWV 1014-1019 |
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Emlyn Ngai (violin), Peter Watchorn (harpsichord) |
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One of the finest versions of these six incomparable works, with proper balance between violin and harpsichord restored for the first time on CD. |
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Cat.#0112/2+1 CD-set
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Johann Sebastian Bach |
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Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 |
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Anne Harley (soprano), Elizabeth Anker (alto), Robert Pitcher (tenor - Evangelist), Max van Egmond (bass), Boston Bach Ensemble - Julian Wachner, Peter Watchorn (direction) |
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Bach’s Christmas masterpiece is brought vividly to life in this live performance from the Boston Bach Ensemble, recorded at Boston University. Conducted by Julian Wachner, the ensemble includes distinguished vocal soloists, including Max van Egmond, as well as some of the finest of America’s specialists in period instrument performance. |
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Released June-01
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Cat.#0101/2CD-set
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Johann Sebastian Bach |
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English Suites, BWV 806 - 811 |
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Peter Watchorn (harpsichord) |
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Harpsichordist Peter Watchorn presents Bach's "Six Great Suites", known today as the English Suites. This fine recording, which showcases a harpsichord by master builder Walter Burr, includes all repeats: nearly 160 minutes of music. |
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Released June-06
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Cat.#0206/2CD-set
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Johann Sebastian Bach |
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Das Wohltemperierte Clavier, Book I |
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Peter Watchorn (harpsichord) |
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The first recording of this universal collection to use the tuning system for which it was most likely written. This release is further enhanced by the first use in 60 years of a pedal harpsichord in a recording of Book 1. A unique recording in more ways than one. |
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Released June-06
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Cat.#0201/2CD-set
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Johann Sebastian Bach |
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Missae Breves, BWV 233-236 |
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Anne Harley & Andrea Folan (sopranos), Miranda Loud (alto), Pablo Bustos (tenor), Max van Egmond (bass), Peter Watchorn (organ), Publick Musick - Thomas Folan (director) |
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Bach’s four short Latin masses (missae breves) are presented here by Publick Musick, one of America’s most exciting young ensembles of singers and “historically aware” instrumentalists. |
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Released June-06
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Cat.#0203/2CD-set
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Johann Sebastian Bach |
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Das Wohltemperierte Clavier, Book II |
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Peter Watchorn (pedal harpsichord) |
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By the 1740s, J. S. Bach was engaged in the task of bringing his life’s work to some kind of final
form. By 1742 he had compiled a second collection of preludes and fugues in all the possible major
and minor keys, which he named Das Wohltemperierte Clavier, Part II, complementing his
original set from twenty years earlier. Peter Watchorn presents this monumental work using a
German-style harpsichord and pedal harpsichord in performances of unrivalled depth and power |
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Released January-10
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Cat.#0202/3CD-set
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Dr. John Bull |
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Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol.I |
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Peter Watchorn and Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord |
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Dr. John Bull (1562-1628) has long held greater fascination and mystique than any other
English composer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. Bull was legendary in his own day as
the supreme virtuoso keyboard player and holder of the keys to the hidden mysteries of esoteric
composition. With this first volume, his fascinating music is presented here in its entirety for the
first time by harpsichordists Peter Watchorn and Mahan Esfahani.This release also represents the debut of a splendid new harpsichord by Zuckermann Harpsichords International, based on the 1642 Hans Moermans instrument now in the Russell Collection in Edinburgh. |
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Released March-09
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Cat.#0301/Slimline Double CD
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Byrd, Bull, Gibbons et al. |
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Music of Tudor and Jacobean England |
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Peter Watchorn (harpsichords by Walter Burr) |
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A distinguished harpsichordist showcases two of the finest modern harpsichords in this varied program of music from England’s “Golden Age”. |
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Cat.#0104/2+1CD-set
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Johann Sebastian Bach |
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Cantatas - BWV 62, 45, 192 & 140 |
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Anne Harley (soprano), Deborah Rentz-Moore (alto), Pablo Bustos (tenor), Jonathan Rohr (bass), Max van Egmond (bass), Peter Watchorn (organ), Publick Musick - Thomas Folan (director). |
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Thomas Folan directs Publick Musick on a wonderful new CD of four exceptional cantatas by J. S. Bach, including the favourite Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140. These are performances worthy to stand next to those of Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt. |
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Released December-07
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Cat.#0204/CD
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Johann Sebastian Bach |
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Inventions & Sinfonias - BWV 772-801 |
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Peter Watchorn (harpsichord) |
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The next volume in Peter Watchorn's complete survey of the harpsichord music of Johann Sebastian Bach is devoted to the Inventions & Sinfonias, BWV 772-801, a set of thirty short contrapuntal pieces written for Bach's son, Wilhelm Friedemann. A textbook demonstration of Bach's preferred "cantabile" style, this recording also features the "Bach" tuning, as proposed by Bradley Lehman, and a magnificent German-style harpsichord by Australian master builder, Alastair McAllister. |
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Released February-08
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Cat.#0208/CD
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Future
Releases:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Works for Harpsichord
MO 0402
Bach: French Suites, BWV 812-817
MO 0403
Bach: Clavierübung II & III (BWV 971, 831, 802-805)
MO 0409
Bach: Partitas, BWV 825-831
MO
Bach: Fantasias, preludes & fugues I
MO 0502
Bach: Fantasias, preludes & fugues II
MO 0505
Bach: Toccatas, BWV 910-916
MO 0506
Bach: Suites, sonatas
MO 0507 Bach: Concertos BWV
972-987;592a
MO 0511
Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080
MO 0512
Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
John Bull:
Complete Works (with Mahan Esfahani)
MO 0404: John Bull: Complete Works for
Keyboard, vol. 2
MO 0407: John Bull: Complete Works for
Keyboard, vol. 3
MO 0408: John Bull: Complete Works for
Keyboard, vol. 4
MO 0411: John Bull: Complete Works for
Keyboard, vol. 5
MO 0510: John Bull: Complete Works for
Keyboard, vol. 6
MO 0601: John Bull: Complete Works for
Keyboard, vol. 7
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