David Ponsford - French Organ Music from the Golden Age, Vol. 8: Gaspard Corrette & Jean-Francois Dandrieu (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless/ MP3 320 kbps | 1:18:12 | 333 / 180 Mb
Genre: Classical
David Ponsford is an organist, harpsichordist, musicologist and conductor, and an authority on keyboard music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was extremely fortunate to be able to study organ with Peter Hurford, Lionel Rogg and Piet Kee, and harpsichord with Kenneth Gilbert and Gustav Leonhardt. Since 2021, he has taught organ and harpsichord & organ continuo at the Royal Academy of Music, London. The present CD is volume 8 in the series ‘French Organ Music from the Golden Age’, performed by David Ponsford on French historic organs. This eight disc series emerged from David Ponsford's seminal book French Organ Music in the Reign of Louis XIV (Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 9781316620748) "This book is a must-have for any serious organist." Choir and Organ "Invaluable to understanding and appreciating its subject.' Early Music