Johannes Keller
Transposing harpsichords: unknown and unloved?
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Recorded live at the Lutherse Kerk, Utrecht, 3 September 2021
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About this concert
Looking for a harpsichord of excellent quality? For that you would turn to the Ruckers family in Antwerp. Their transposing double-manual keyboards were used by the greatest composers and players of the early seventeenth century, but today they are conspicuous by their absence. Johannes Keller combines the richness of sound of his ‘dobbel staert stuk’ with Sweelinck’s ingenious counterpoint: a combination that promises rhetoric squared.
Programme
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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Toccata in G major
Variations on ‘Mein junges Leben hat ein End’, SwWV 324
Toccata in A minor
Variations for keyboard, ‘Pavana Lachrymae’, SwWV 328
Fantasia in D minor
Variations on ‘Vluchtige nimph’, SwWV 331
Echo fantasia in C major
Toccata in G minor
Fantasia in F major, ‘Ut re mi fa sol la’1562-1621
Musicians
- Johannes Keller harpsichord
About the performer
Johannes Keller studied harpsichord with Jörg-Andreas Bötticher and basso continuo and ensemble direction with Jesper Christensen and Andrea Marcon at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He is co-founder of Ensemble Il Profondo and Duo L’Istante. Keller performs with ensembles including La Cetra Barockorchester in Basel, Venice Baroque Orchestra and Les Siècles, and has been guest of the Freiburger Barockorchester, the Berliner Philharmoniker and the hr-Sinfonieorchester. Since 2013 Keller has taught intonation and tuning types at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. His research is mainly dedicated to enharmonic (microtonal) instruments of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and their performance practice.