This list was originally produced in printed form, and for reasons of space, most concert reviews and reports of conferences and meetings were excluded. We are gradually adding these items to the web-site file, but this task is not yet complete.
For an index to book, CD and music reviews in BCS Newsletters to date, click here. Further details are available from the BCS Shop, which can also supply back numbers.
Continuing series:
‘Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance’ by
Peter Bavington appears in Newsletters 3-8, 10-12, 14, 16, 18 and
20;
‘Clavichords in Britain’, by many hands, is in Newsletters
1-5, 9, 14, 17, 21, 24, 35, 39, 42, 45, 47 and 50 (and continues);
‘Playing the Eighteenth-Century Clavichord’ by Paul Simmonds
is in Newsletters 22, 24, 27 and 29;
‘Pioneers of the English Clavichord Revival’ by Lynne Mirrey is in Newsletters 36 and 41 (we hope to continue this series).
A new series ‘Technical Matters’ by Peter Bavington began in Newsletter 51.
BCS Newsletter 1 (February 1995)
Foreword Derek Adlam
The Sacred Monochord: some new musings on an old manuscript Albert
Chatterley
The Pedal Clavichord under Construction in Edinburgh John Barnes
Clavichords in Britain No. 1: The Lindholm & Söderström
clavichord at Finchcocks Peter Bavington
The German Clavichord Society visits Leipzig Paul Simmonds
Recital by Colin Tilney at Lewes, 12 November 1994 Paul Simmonds
Letters John Weston, Theo Brueton, Gilbert Vanables, Peter & Vivienne Sweet
BCS Newsletter 2 (June 1995)
Hubert’s ‘1771’ and
the four-foot register Paul Simmonds
Clavichords in Britain No. 2: The C. G. Hoffmann clavichord at Hatchlands Park Edmund Handy and David Law
BCS Meeting at the Open University, 11 March 1995 Susan Alexander-Max
Reviews: A clavichord bibliography (Galpin Society Journal);
De Clavicordio (1993 Magnano conference proceedings) Peter
Bavington
BCS Newsletter 3 (October 1995)
Clavichords in Britain No. 3: The
Hubert 1784 clavichord in the Russell Collection, Edinburgh John
Barnes
Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance Part 1: Equipment; correcting unisons Peter
Bavington
Reports:
The BCS at the Bate Collection, Oxford, 18 June 1995
Judith Wardman
BCS Visit to the Mirrey Collection, London, 22 July 1995 John Weston
Festival of Flanders, Early Keyboard Instrument Exhibition, Bruges, Belgium, 1–5 August 1995 Edmund Handy
CD Review: Early Iberian Music and Sephardi Songs CD by Nelly
van Ree Bernard Paul Simmonds
BCS Newsletter 4 (February 1996)
Coupling between Clavichord Unisons and its
Effect on Tuning John Barnes
Clavichords in Britain No. 4: The 1763 Johann Hass clavichord in
the Russell Collection, Edinburgh Lance Whitehead
Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance Part 2: Correcting octaves Peter
Bavington
Reports:
The BCS at Haslemere, September 1995: the work of Arnold
Dolmetsch Kenneth Mobbs
Clavichord Recital by Paul Simmonds, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, 27 October 1995 Richard Ireland
Clavichord Recital by Paul Simmonds, Lewes, 20 January 1996 Peter Bavington
CD Review: Paul Simmonds’ German music for clavichord
reviewed by Derek Adlam
Book Review: Boalch (ed. Mould), Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord, 3rd edition, reviewed by Edmund Handy
BCS Newsletter 5 (June 1996)
Clavichords in Britain No. 5: The Michael
Thomas pentagonal clavichord in the Bate Collection, Oxford (with
an addendum on the other modern clavichords in the Bate Collection) David Law
Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance Part 3: Replacing broken strings Peter Bavington
Reports:
First BCS Annual General Meeting, Forum and Recital by Derek Adlam, London, March 1996 Paul Simmonds and Peter Bavington
Clavichord Music at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 31 March 1996 Michael Blake
Lecture recital by Bernard Brauchli: The Clavichord in Spain and Portugal, London, 27 April 1996 John Collins
Second International Clavichord Conference, Magnano, 21–23 September 1995 Joel Speerstra
Review: Clavichord CDs by Miklós Spányi (PHI CD 95004
and 95005) Paul Simmonds
BCS Newsletter 6 (October 1996)
Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance Part 4:
Performing a full tuning Peter Bavington
An interview with Sean Rawnsley
Clavichord with Chips John Lester
Reports:
Clavichord recital by Colin Tilney, Lewes, 13 July 1996 John Collins
BCS Clavichord Weekend, Edinburgh, 30 August–2 September 1996 Lance Whitehead and David Law
The BCS at the London International Exhibition of Early Music, London, September 1996
BCS Newsletter 7 (February 1997)
News of the Pedal Clavichord John Barnes
Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance Part 5: Glossary Peter Bavington
An interview with Darryl Martin
Reports – Menno van Delft in England:
Concert at the Workshop, Lewes, 16 November 1996, and
Lecture-recital on J. G. Müthel, London, 17 November 1996 Paul Simmonds
News of the Pedal Clavichord John Barnes
Letters to the editor John Barnes and Peter Bavington
BCS Newsletter 8 (June 1997)
Report: Haydn's Keyboard Music (BCS Symposium), St Johns College, Cambridge, 6 April 1997 Paul Simmonds
The Clavichord in Education: a survey Richard Ireland
The Case for and against the Electric Clavichord Lyndon Johann
Taylor
Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance Part 6: Sticking keys (see also
BCSN 10) Peter Bavington
Review: Interpretation of 16th-century Iberian Music on the Clavichord (Nelly van Ree Bernard) reviewed by John Collins
Obituaries: Michael Thomas (1922–1997) Michele Hanson; David Law; J. R. and L. M. Mirrey
Hugh Gough (1916–1997) John Barnes
Letters from John Barnes; Jeremy Rowett; Maria Boxall
BCS Newsletter 9 (October 1997)
Handel and the Clavichordium Maria Boxall
Clavichords in Britain No. 6: The anonymous triple-fretted clavichord
in the Russell Collection, Edinburgh Darryl Martin
Reports: Twentieth-Century Music for the Clavichord, BCS meeting, London, 17 May 1997 Ruby Reid Thompson
BCS visit to Fenton House, London, 2 August 1997 Kenneth Mobbs
The Society’s Growing Archive Albert Chatterley
CD Reviews:
Ernst Wilhelm Wolf Keyboard Sonatas, Paul
Simmonds
Swedish Clavichords, Mikko Korhonen plays instant music (improvisations
on clavichords in the Musikmuseet, Stockholm)
Laurence Let Loose,
Jazz Improvisations on Early Keyboard Instruments (Alistair
Laurence playing clavichord and fortepianos from the Finchcocks Collection);
all reviewed by Derek Adlam
Obituaries: Dr Carl Dolmetsch (1911–1997) Paul Simmonds
Ruth Dyson (1917–1997) Jonathan Baxendale
BCS Newsletter 10 (February 1998)
Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance Part 7:
Tuning - checking octaves (and sticking keys) Peter Bavington
Four Legs Good, No Legs Bad Francis Knights
The Priest, the Patient and the Clavichord John Lester
CD Review: Iberian Music on the Clavichord by Ilton Wjuniski John
Collins
Useful repertoire: D. G. Türk, Handstücke für
angehende Klavierspieler (published in two volumes, each entitled Sixty
Pieces for Aspiring Players, by the Associated Board, London) Paul
Simmonds
BCS Newsletter 11 (June 1998)
Obituary: John Barnes
Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance Part 8: Fretted clavichords Peter
Bavington
A new re-issue of the clavichord recordings of Thurston Dart Francis
Knights
Music review: Georg Benda, 17 Sonatas for Keyboard (ed.
Christopher Hogwood) and 35 Sonatinas for Keyboard (ed.
Timothy Roberts) Paul Simmonds
Some Recent Additions to the Archive Paul Simmonds
BCS Newsletter 12 (October 1998)
Demeanour at the Clavichord Steve Barrell
Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance Part 9: Winding hitch-pin loops Peter
Bavington
BCS Newsletter 13 (February 1999)
A Profile of the Modern Clavichord Edmund
Handy
Obituary: Haward Clarke Katharine May
Reviews: Bernard Brauchli, The Clavichord reviewed by Paul
Simmonds; Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (transcribed and edited
by Kenneth Gilbert) reviewed by Francis Knights
BCS Newsletter 14 (June 1999)
Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance Part 10:
Listing Peter Bavington
Clavichords in Britain No. 7: The Franciolini at Snowshill Manor,
Glos. Garry Broughton
Brynginge about a Monacorde - The monacorde in England and Scotland
1407-1548 Maria Boxall
Amplifying Clavichords Edmund Handy
Jet Flight Good for Clavichordists? Akihiko Yamanobe
BCS Newsletter 15 (October 1999)
The J. C. G. Schiedmayer Clavichord (1796)
in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Allan Winkler
Thomas Goff and his Clavichords: a brief introduction Judith
Wardman
Reviews: C. W. Podbielski, Sonatas for Clavier Paul Simmonds
Richard Troeger’s CD of J. S. Bach Partitas Paul Simmonds
BCS Newsletter 16 (February 2000)
Thomas Goff and his Clavichords Peter
Bavington
Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance Part 11: Tuning the four-foot strings
(and a postscript on listing) Peter Bavington
Some Further Thoughts on Amplifying Clavichords David Law
Early Clavichords in England: more information from Michael Fleming Judith
Wardman
Review: C. P. E. Bach sonatas and sonatinas: CDs by Miklós
Spányi Paul Simmonds
Obituary: John Kay Paul Simmonds
BCS Newsletter 17 (June 2000)
George Bernard Shaw and the Clavichord: Part
1 John Weston
Clavichords in Britain No. 8: The anonymous triple-fretted clavichord
at Fenton House, London Peter Bavington
Acquired for the Archive: a clavichord monograph from the 1960s Peter
Bavington
Amplifying Clavichords for Recitals John Barnes (1988)
The Amplification and Recording of Clavichords: a symposium in Basel Michael
Zapf
CD reviews: Marcia Hadjimarkos, Haydn; Arthur Schoonderwoerd,
Eckard Peter Grahame Woolf
BCS Newsletter 18 (October 2000)
George Bernard Shaw and the Clavichord: Part
2 John Weston
Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance Part 12: An introduction to tangent
voicing Peter Bavington
Early Reactions to Restored Clavichords John Barnes (1998)
Exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London: Gerrit Dou: Rembrandt's
first pupil Lynne Mirrey
Richard Troeger’s CD of J. S. Bach Toccatas Paul
Simmonds
BCS Newsletter 19 (February 2001)
George Bernard Shaw and the Clavichord: Part
3 John Weston
Clavichord Key Geometry John Rawson
BCS Events Survey Results Edmund Handy
Seventeenth-century German Keyboard Music: Matching instruments to
music Peter Bavington
BCS Newsletter 20 (June 2001)
Seventeenth-Century German Keyboard Music:
BCS Study Day, Cambridge Albert Chatterley; Derek Adlam
Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance Part 13: More Thoughts on Temperament
Setting Peter Bavington
Low B – and High e3? John
Weston
Establishing a BCS Clavichord Database Mike Daniels
CD review: Nocturnal Sounds: Music for flute and clavichord
played by Benedek Csalog and Miklós Spányi Paul
Simmonds
BCS Newsletter 21 (October 2001)
Triple frets threatened John Weston
Clavichords in Britain No. 9: The 1894 Dolmetsch at the Royal College
of Music Lance Whitehead
Some reflections on Magnano 2001 Peter Bavington
Obituary: Mark Stevenson Garry Broughton
BCS Newsletter 22 (February 2002)
Playing the Eighteenth-Century Clavichord,
Part 1 Paul Simmonds
The Triple-fretted Clavichord: Reactions to John Weston and Maria
Boxall Peter Bavington, Lynne Mirrey and Paula Woods
The Earliest Surviving Signed and Dated Unfretted Clavichord Lothar
Bemmann
A Swedish Clavichord at Sotheby’s Christopher Nobbs
CD review: Derek Adlam, J. S. Bach Masterworks Paul Simmonds
BCS Newsletter 23 (June 2002)
Book Review: Annette Richards, The Free
Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque reviewed by Garry Broughton
Harmony Spoilt Maria Boxall
The Historical Role of the Triple-fretted Clavichord Maria Boxall
CD reviews: Miklós Spányi, C. P. E. Bach Solo Keyboard
Music, Vol. 7 Paul Simmonds; Bradley Lehman (various) Garry
Broughton
BCS Newsletter 24 (October 2002)
Clavichords in Britain No. 10: The 1751 Fritz
at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London Edmund Handy
Playing the Eighteenth-Century Clavichord, Part 2: Posture and Demeanour Paul
Simmonds
Thomas Goff Clavichord Number One Discovered Richard Ireland
CD review: Ludger Singer, ‘Mediterra Nova’ and ‘Syntopia’ Paul
Simmonds
Book review: David Rowland, Early Keyboard Instruments: a Practical
Guide reviewed by Albert Chatterley
Music review: J. S. Bach, Two-Part Inventions and Four Duets, ed.
Sandra Soderlund Francis Knights
BCS Newsletter 25 (February 2003)
The Early Clavichord in Scotland Lynne
Mirrey
Music review: J. G. Goldberg, Polonaises John Collins
CD reviews:
Peter Ella, Sweelinck Derek Adlam; Marcia Hadjimarkos, C.
P. E. Bach: ‘Portraits de Caractère’ Kenneth
Mobbs; Nicole Hostettler and Pierre Goy, J. G. Müthel,
Ariosi, Sonatas and Duetti Paul Simmonds; Miklós
Spányi, C. P. E. Bach Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 8 Garry
Broughton
Special Report: The Licensing Bill Peter Bavington
An Amateur’s Guide to Early Iberian Keyboard Music Judith
Wardman
BCS Newsletter 26 (June 2003)
A Golden Age: Iberian Instrumental Music
before 1700: BCS Study Day, London Paul Simmonds, Brian
Wishart
‘The Soft and Sweet-toned Clavichord’ Mary Rowe
Book reviews: David Ledbetter, Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier reviewed
by Christopher Hogwood; De Clavicordio V: proceedings
of the fifth Magnano Symposium, Part 1 of a two-part review
by Maria Boxall
CD reviews: Jaroslav Tuma, J. S. Bach, Das Wohltemperierte Klavier,
Book 1 Paula Woods; Miklós Spányi, C. P. E.
Bach Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 9 Derek Adlam
Obituary: Stephen P. Saunders Brenda Saunders
BCS Newsletter 27 (October 2003)
Playing the Eighteenth-Century Clavichord,
Part 3: Touch Paul Simmonds
Book reviews: De Clavicordio V: proceedings of the fifth Magnano
Symposium, Part 2 of a two-part review by Maria Boxall;
Bruce Haynes, A History of Performing Pitch reviewed by Darryl
Martin; Stuart Isacoff, Temperament reviewed by Peter
Bavington
CD reviews: Siebe Henstra, ‘Clavicorde lié’ ;
Bernard Brauchli, Mozart, Nannerl’s Notebook Paula Woods
Robert Browning and Galuppi’s Clavichord Peter Bavington
The BCS Awards for Clavichord Composition
BCS Newsletter 28 (February 2004)
Book review: Christopher Hogwood (ed.) The
Keyboard in Baroque Europe (a collection of articles celebrating
the 75th birthday of Gustav Leonhardt) David Ledbetter
CD reviews: Derek Adlam, ‘Haydn: Acht Sauschneider müssen
sein’, Garry Broughton; Miklós Spányi,
C. P. E. Bach, The Solo Keyboard Music, vol. 10 Paula Woods
Music review: ‘fitt for the Manicorde’: A seventeenth-century
English collection of keyboard music, ed. Christopher Hogwood,
reviewed by Maria Boxall
Letter: Robert Browning and Galuppi’s Clavichord: some further
information Garry Broughton
BCS Newsletter 29 (June 2004)
Trusting the Horse’s Mouth Gregory
Crowell
Playing the Eighteenth-Century Clavichord, Part 4: Fingering (1) Paul
Simmonds
Book review: Richard Troeger, Playing Bach on the Keyboard reviewed
by Terence Charlston
CD reviews: Christopher Hogwood, ‘The Secret Bach’, Garry
Broughton; Tom Beghin, C. P. E. Bach, Pièces de Caractère, Paul
Simmonds; René Clemencic,
‘Late Gothic and Renaissance Masterworks Vol. 2’, Andrew
Benson-Wilson
Music review: J. L. Krebs, Suites and Sonatinas, Katharine May
BCS Newsletter 30 (October 2004)
Living with an Arnault Clavichord, Part 1 John
Weston
Clavichord Music before 1700: Some suggestions for reading and repertoire Derek
Adlam
A Clavichord by Georg Nicolaus Deckert George Veness
The British Clavichord Society Awards for Clavichord Composition Peter
Bavington
Book review: Joel Speerstra, Bach and the Pedal Clavichord,
reviewed by Andrew Benson-Wilson
CD reviews: Adrian Butterfield (violin) and Laurence Cummings (clavichord/harpsichord),
C. P. E. Bach Sonatas, reviewed by Paula Woods; Paul Simmonds, ‘Pour
ung Plaisir: Renaissance Music for Clavichord’, Maria
Boxall
BCS Newsletter 31 (February 2005)
Living with an Arnault Clavichord, Part 2 John
Weston
Fuga a 40 - A piece for ten clavichords Garry Broughton
Book review: Brauchli, Galazzo and Moody (eds), De Clavicordio
VI: Proceedings of the VI International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano,
2003, reviewed by Darryl Martin
CD reviews: Siegbert Rampe, Froberger, reviewed by Paul Simmonds;
Miklós Spányi, C. P. E. Bach, The Solo Keyboard Music,
vol. 12, reviewed by Julian Perkins; Erik van Bruggen, Pedal
Clavichords, reviewed by Francis Knights; Menno van Delft,
Müthel, reviewed by Derek Adlam; Ilton Wjuniski, Bach
French Suites, reviewed by Anthony Noble
Discovery of a Signed Tannenberg Clavichord Peter Bavington
Restoration of a Transylvanian Clavichord Jessica Douglas-Home
Rex Muffett: Teaching the Clavichord Ian Mortimer
BCS Newsletter 32 (June 2005)
Fifty Years of Clavichord Making: Robert
Morley and Co. John Morley
Building a Clavichord from the Paris Workshop Kit David Hitchin
The Clavichord in Baku John Haines
CD review: Telemann Duos (played by Ensemble Caprice); Fantasies
by Matthias Maute, played by Alexander Weimann, clavichord Paula
Woods
Music review: Johann and Johann Philipp Krieger: Complete keyboard
works, edited by Siegbert Rampe and Helene Lerch John Collins
Obituary: Roger Lee: Northern Master-craftsman David Bolton
BCS Newsletter 33 (October 2005)
In Search of Sir Thomas More’s Clavichord:
Part 1 Garry Broughton
The Missing Benton Fletcher Clavichord Peter Bavington
Struggling with Stein: Notes from an Amateur Clavichord Maker Mike
Daniels
Impressions of Magnano 2005: The 7th International Clavichord Symposium Peter
Bavington
CD reviews: Miklós Spányi, J. G. Eckard Keyboard Works,
reviewed by Derek Adlam;
Richard Troeger, J. S. Bach, Art of Fugue, reviewed by Anthony
Noble
Book review: Judy Tarling, The Weapons of Rhetoric, reviewed
by Terence Charlston
The Visit Mary Rowe
BCS Newsletter 34 (February 2006)
CD reviews: Miklós Spányi and
Benedek Csalog, J. S. Bach ‘A Flauto Traverso’,
reviewed by Garry Broughton
Jocelyne Cuiller, O süßer Clavichord! (music
by J. S. and C. P. E. Bach), reviewed by Neil Coleman
Bernard Brauchli, Portuguese Keyboard Music of the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries, reviewed by Julian Perkins
Jaroslav Tuma, J. S. Bach Goldberg Variations, reviewed
by Paul Simmonds
Colin Tilney, C. P. E. Bach: Six Sonatas ‘for connoisseurs
and amateurs’, Book 1, reviewed by Julian Perkins.
Book reviews: Julian Johnson, Who Needs Classical Music?,
reviewed by Huw Saunders
Thomas Donahue, A Guide to Musical Temperament, reviewed
by David Hitchin
Music reviews: John Dowland, Keyboard Music edited by Christopher
Hogwood, reviewed by Derek Adlam
Heinrich Scheidemann, Complete Works for Clavier, reviewed
by John Collins
Johann Bernhard Bach, Two Chaconnes, reviewed by John
Collins
Emergency Continuo with a Clavichord Alec Massa and George DeBono
Some Other 2006 Anniversaries John Collins
Obituary: Dr Randolph R. (Bunt) White Paula Woods
The Rodger Mirrey Collection goes to Edinburgh
BCS Newsletter 35 (June 2006)
Clavichords in Britain No. 11: The Anonymous
Triple-fretted Clavichord in the Rodger Mirrey Collection Darryl
Martin
CD reviews: Christopher Hogwood, G. F. Handel, J.-Ph. Krieger, F.
W. Zachow: ‘The Secret Handel: works for clavichord’,
reviewed by Anthony Noble
Miklós Spányi, C. P. E. Bach, The Solo Keyboard Music,
volume 14, reviewed by Paul Simmonds
Music review: Christian Flor, Dreizehn & Ein Choral für
Clavier; Autori diversi, Labyrinthe – drei Werke für
Clavier, both ed. Jörg Jacobi, reviewed by John Collins
The Clavichord and Affairs of State (and Jazz) Garry Broughton
BCS Newsletter 36 (October 2006)
Pioneers of the English Clavichord-playing
Revival: 1. Dorothy Swainson Lynne Mirrey
Two Historic References to the Clavichord in Durham Francis Knights
Reports: Handel’s Keyboard Music: BCS event at St Lawrence
Whitchurch, Little Stanmore Andrew Benson-Wilson
A Visit to the GOArt Project, Göteborg Terence Charlston
Music reviews: C. P. E. Bach Complete Works, Vol. 1/3, reviewed
by Anthony Noble
G. C. Wagenseil, Tre Divertimenti, reviewed by Maria
Boxall
The Music Lesson, Mary Rowe
BCS Newsletter 37 (February 2007)
Buxtehude for Clavichordists John Collins
CD review: Christopher Hogwood (with Derek Adlam), The Secret
Mozart, reviewed by Garry Broughton
Book review: Annette Richards (ed.), C. P. E. Bach Studies,
reviewed by David Ledbetter
BCS Newsletter 38 (June 2007)
Twentieth- and 21st-century music for the
clavichord Peter Bavington
CD reviews: Miklós Spányi, C. P. E. Bach, Concertos
and Solo Keyboard Music, volume 15, reviewed by Anthony
Noble
Peter Waldner, Mozart, Sonaten und Variationen, reviewed
by Garry Broughton
Book review: B. Brauchli, A. Galazzo and J. Wardman (eds.), De
Clavicordio VII, reviewed by Derek Adlam
Music reviews: C. P. E. Bach Complete Works, series I volumes
8.1 and 8.2, reviewed by Neil Coleman
D. G. Türk, 120 Easy and Pleasant Pieces for Beginners in
Clavichord Playing (Fuzeau Facsimile), reviewed by Paul
Simmonds
G. A. Paganelli, Amusement for the Fair Sex, reviewed by John
Collins
Obituary: Dr Rodger Mirrey
BCS Newsletter 39 (October 2007)
Clavichords in Britain No. 12: An
unsigned instrument in the Bate Collection, Oxford Peter Bavington
Book review: Peter Bavington, Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance,
reviewed by David Hitchin
CD reviews: Paul Simmonds, W. F. Bach, Polonaises and Fugues,
reviewed by Derek Adlam
Maria Erdman, The Stary Sacz Manuscript, reviewed by Paula Woods
Miklós Spányi, C. P. E. Bach, Württemberg Sonatas I, reviewed
by Neil Coleman
Music reviews: E. W. Wolf, edited by Paul Simmonds and Mike Daniels, Fortsetzung
sechs leichter Klaviersonaten, reviewed by Owen Daly
Ignaz Pleyel, Sonatas and Rondos, reviewed by John Collins
The Witzendorf Tablature (1655), reviewed by John Collins
Tom Goff by Himself Peter Bavington
BCS Membership Survey 2007: Results David Hitchin Â
BCS Newsletter 40 (February 2008)
A Russian Clavichord Maker David
Bolton
Book review: Bruce Haynes, The End of Early Music, reviewed
by David Ledbetter
CD reviews: Martin Farrar, J. S. Bach, The Art of Fugue, etc.,
reviewed by Garry Broughton
Miklós Spányi, C. P. E. Bach, Württemberg Sonatas II, reviewed
by David Griffel
Music reviews: C. P. E. Bach, Miscellaneous Sonatas from Prints,
reviewed by Katharine May
Georg Sorge, Partitas, reviewed by John Collins
H. N. Gerber, Twelve Inventions, reviewed by John Erskine
Thomas Goff: some memories John Rawson
Composer Anniversaries in 2008 John Collins
Obituary: Valda Aveling Stephen Dodgson
BCS Newsletter 41 (June 2008)
The Clavichord in Tudor Cambridge Francis
Knights
Pioneers of the English Clavichord Revival: 2. Herbert Lambert Lynne
Mirrey
Book review: Ross W. Duffin, How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony
(and Why You Should Care), and A. C. N. Mackenzie of Ord, The
Temperament of Keyboard Music: Its Character; its Musicality; and
its History, reviewed by Peter Bavington
CD review: Gary Carpenter, Die Flimmerkiste (including Van
Assendelft’s Vermeer, played by Pamela Nash, (clavichord), reviewed
by Garry Broughton
Music review: Johann Christoph Kellner, Six Fugues, reviewed
by John Collins
Obituary: David Bolton Christopher Stembridge
BCS Newsletter 42 (October 2008)
Clavichords in Britain No. 13: The
Arnold Dolmetsch clavichord in St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh Peter
Bavington
Music reviews: Albertus Bryne interactive edition, edited by Terence
Charlston, reviewed by John Erskine
Stephen Dodgson, Clavichord Suites, reviewed by Terence
Charlston
Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Sechs leichte Clavier-Sonaten: Six Simple
Sonatas (Weimar, 1786), edited by Paul Simmonds and Mike Daniels,
reviewed by Penelope Cave
Christoph Graupner, Monatliche Clavirfrüchte (1722),
edited by Jörg Jacobi, reviewed by John Collins
BCS Newsletter 43 (February 2009)
Composer Anniversaries in 2009 John Collins
More about clavichords in England and Ireland Judith Wardman
Book review: De Clavicordio VIII, reviewed by David Griffel
CD review: Jaroslav , J. S. Bach, Das Wohltemperierte Klavier (complete), reviewed by Malcolm Russell
Music reviews:
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, 8 Fugues, edited by Paul Simmonds and Mike Daniels, reviewed by Anthony Noble
Albrechtsberger, 6 Fugues, edited by Greg Lewin, and 12 Fugues [etc.] (facsimile), reviewed by John Collins
The Wrong Way to Do It John Lester
BCS Newsletter 44 (June 2009)
E-book review: Baroque Keyboard Fingering by Claudio Di Veroli, reviewed by Menno van Delft
CD reviews:
Aapo Häkkinen, Haydn, Seven Last Words, reviewed by Anthony Noble
Jocelyne Cuiller, C. P. E. Bach, Rêveries pour Connaisseurs et Amateurs, reviewed by Garry Broughton
Cristiano Holtz, J. S. Bach, Inventions et Sinfonies, reviewed by John Erskine
Music reviews:
Telemann and Fasch, Fuzeau facsimile editions reviewed by Paul Simmonds
J. C. Kittel, Six Sonatas and a Fantasie , reviewed by John Collins
House Music Paula Woods
Clavichords on YouTube David Griffel
BCS Newsletter 45 (October 2009)
Clavichords in Britain No. 14: Haydn's Clavichord: Unfretted clavichord by Johann Bohak in the Royal College of Music Museum of Instruments Peter Bavington
E-book review: Unequal Temperament by Claudio Di Veroli, reviewed by David Hitchin
CD reviews:
Dialogues: Works by Stephen Dodgson (including Julian Perkins's recording of the two Clavichord Suites), reviewed by Katharine May
W. F. Bach: Two Recordings Compared (Maude Gratton, Fantasies etc.; Paul Simmonds, Polonaises and Fugues), reviewed by Penelope Cave
Music review: The Selosse Manuscript, reviewed by John Collins
Letter to the Editor, Claudio Di Veroli
BCS Newsletter 46 (February 2010)
The Crathes Monicordis Garry Broughton
Composer Anniversaries in 2010 John Collins
CD review: Carole Cerasi, Haydn and the Art of Variation, reviewed by David Griffel
Music review: Schaffrath Sonatas, reviewed by John Collins
Letter to the Editor, Terence Charlston
BCS Newsletter 47 (June 2010) )
Clavichords in Britain No. 15: Unfretted clavichord in the Mirrey collection, Edinburgh Darryl Martin
Ornaments and Rhythm in the Performance of 16th-century Spanish Keyboard Music John Collins
Reports:
Clavichord recital by Linda Nicholson Christopher Gold
A Visit to the Hague Peter Bavington
Book review: The Keyboard Stringing Guide by Jean Louchet, reviewed by David Hitchin
CD reviews:
Mathieu Dupouy, Pensées Nocturnes (C. P. E. Bach), reviewed by Anthony Noble
Michael Tsalka, 201 Years of Grace (Türk etc.), reviewed by Paula Woods
A Virtual Clavichord, Peter Mole
Letter to the Editor, Peter Mole
BCS Newsletter 48 (October 2010) )
Ornaments and Rhythm in the Performance of 16th-century Spanish Keyboard Music (part 2) John Collins
Reports:
A Season of Clavichord Events
The 15th BCS Annual General Meeting and Recital by Susan Alexander-Max David Millard and Garry Broughton
Marcia Hadjimarkos at Finchcocks Martha Leigh
Purcell Day at Little Benslow Hills Richard Ireland
Wim Winters plays Bach and Beethoven Peter Thresh
CD reviews:
Miklós Spányi: C. P. E. Bach Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 20, reviewed by John Irving
Nicole Hostettler: J. S. Bach, Die Kunst der Fuge, reviewed by John Erskine
Tomoko Akatsu Miyamoto: The World of the Clavichord: Discovering a ‘Concealed’ Realm, reviewed by Adrian Lenthall
Music Reviews:
W. F. Bach: Collected Works, Vol. 1, ed. Peter Wollny, reviewed by Paul Simmonds
Peter Nickol: Ten Miniature Pieces for Clavichord or Piano, reviewed by Julian Perkins
Some Further Glimpses into the Life of Tom Goff, Richard Ireland
BCS Newsletter 49 (February 2011)
Composer Anniversaries in 2011 John Collins
Reports:
Clavichord Master-Class with Terence Charlston
Kevin Richardson
Greenwich Early Music Festival and Exhibition Judith Wardman
BCS Clavichord Afternoon at the Grosvenor Chapel Paula Woods
BCS Education Afternoon in Abingdon Andrew Lamb and Peter Bavington
Book and E-book reviews:
De Clavicordio IX, reviewed by Garry Broughton
Playing the Baroque Harpsichord (Claudio Di Veroli), reviewed by Penelope Cave
CD reviews:
Pachelbel, Keyboard Works (Andrus Madsen), reviewed by Mads Damlund
J. S. Bach Goldberg Variations (Benjamin-Joseph Steens), reviewed by Anthony Noble
Music Reviews:
C. P. E. Bach, volumes from the Complete Works (Packard Humanities Institute), reviewed by David Ledbetter
F. T. Richter, Keyboard Works, reviewed by John Collins
E. W. Wolf, Six Sonatas (1775), reviewed by Katharine May
H. O. Zinck, Keyboard Works, and J. Haydn, Differentes Petites Pièces, reviewed by David Griffel
More Evidence of Clavichords in England, Derek Adlam
BCS Newsletter 50 (June 2011)
Clavichords in Britain No. 16: The 1807 Georg Schmahl clavichord at Finchcocks Peter Bavington
Composer Anniversaries in 2011 John Collins
Reports:
Handels Attic: recital by Julian Perkins at the Handel-House Museum, 8 February 2011
Richard Ireland
A Clavichord in the Purcell Room: OAE study day with Steven Devine, 5 March 2011 Judith Wardman
Clavichord Recital by Miklós Spányi, Lewes, 12 March 2011 David Griffel
A Masterclass in Musicianship: Miklós Spányi at the RCM, London, 14 March 2011 David Millard
Sixteenth BCS AGM and Recital by Peter Sykes, London, 21 May 2011 Judith Wardman & Jillian Mitchell
Peter Sykess other UK Concerts, May 2011 Judith Wardman
Book Review:
Did Bach Really Mean That? (Colin Booth), reviewed by Peter Mole
CD reviews:
J. C. Bach, Keyboard Sonatas Op. 5 (Susan Alexander-Max), reviewed by John Irving
C. P. E. Bach, Solo Keyboard Music, Vols. 21 and 22 (Miklós Spányi), reviewed by Adrian Lenthall
Antonio de Cabezón and his contemporaries (Bernard Brauchli), reviewed by John Collins
Music Reviews:
Johann Jacob Froberger: New edition of the complete keyboard works, Vol. VI, edited by Siegbert Rampe (Bärenreiter), reviewed by John Collins
Leopold Koželuch, Complete Sonatas for Keyboard, ed. Christopher Hogwood (Bärenreiter), reviewed by John Irving
Letter to the Editor Claudio di Veroli
BCS Newsletter 51 (October 2011)
Technical Matters 1: Overwound Strings Peter Bavington
Letter from Switzerland: the Magdenau Clavichord Paul Simmonds
Reports:
First International Conference on Historical Keyboard Music, Edinburgh, 1–3 July 2011 Paula Woods
Clavichord Recital by Makiko Nishikaze, London, 1 July 2011 Judith Wardman
BCS Visit to Linda Nicholson, London, 7 July 2011 Garry Broughton
Tenth International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano, Italy, 6–10 September Peter Bavington
Lieder with Clavichord at the RCM Museum, London, 29 September 2011 Judith Wardman
Book Review:
Early Music: A Very Short Introduction (Thomas Forrest Kelly), reviewed by David Millard
Music Review:
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach: Six Keyboard Sonatas and Three Keyboard Sonatas, edited by Ulrich Leisinger (Carus), reviewed by John Collins
BCS Newsletter 52 (February 2012)
The Clavichord Revival: a progress report Paul Simmonds
Composer Anniversaries in 2012 John Collins
Reports:
The Well-Tempered Clavichord, book 1: Robert Woolley at Oxford, 29 October 2011
David Griffel
Louis Couperin on the Clavichord, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 5 November 2011 Garry Broughton
CD review:
C. P. E. Bach, Sonatas and Clavierstücke (Linda Nicholson), reviewed by Anthony Noble
Music Reviews:
Samuel Scheidt, Keyboard Music transmitted in Manuscript form, edited by Pieter Dirksen (Breitkopf & Härtel), reviewed by John Erskine
Johann Mattheson, Pieces de Clavecin, edited by Jolanda Scarpa (Edition Walhall), reviewed by John Collins
Carl Christian Friedrich Fasch, Six Sonatas, edited by Christopher Hogwood (Edition HH), reviewed by Julian Perkins
Obituaries:
Virginia Pleasants (1911–2011) Claire Hammett; Richard Ireland
Gustav Leonhardt (1928–2012) Paul Simmonds
A Lady at the Clavichord? Peter Bavington
updated 22 february 2012
