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Peter Watchorn
12+ albums
clavecinbaroque
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Peter Watchorn (born 1957) is an Australian-born harpsichordist who has combined a virtuosic keyboard technique, musical scholarship and practical experience in the construction of harpsichords copied from original instruments of the 17th and 18th centuries. As well as presenting many solo public performances and broadcasts of baroque keyboard music and participating in choral and orchestral performances, he has made numerous commercial CD recordings of solo harpsichord music from the 17th and 18th centuries. He specialises in the music of JS Bach, 17th-century French and German music, and the works of the English virginalist composers. He is widely recognised as an expert on the history of the early music revival during the 20th century. His biography of the Viennese harpsichordist Isolde Ahlgrimm (1914–95) was published by Ashgate in December, 2007. He first studied early keyboard performance with Margaret Lloyd in Newcastle, Australia, and then with Nancy Salas in Sydney during the 1970s. With Nancy Salas, he presented a series of 12 joint lecture-recitals on the second book of JS Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music. During the 1980s, he performed on harpsichord and chamber organ with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Australian period-instrument ensemble, the Telemann Trio (with Owen Watkins, recorder and Margaret Waugh, cello). During this period, he worked closely with Melbourne instrument-maker, Alastair McAllister on harps
top songs
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Prelude in E Minor, BWV 932 (Completed by P. Watchorn)
822Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV 846i
793Prelude No. 6 in D minor, BWV 851i
714Prelude No. 2 in C minor, BWV 847i
655Concerto in G Minor, BWV 975: II. Largo
616Fugue No. 2 in C minor, a 3 / BWV 847ii
597Prelude No. 3 in C# major, BWV 848i
558In nomine XII
509Fugue No. 1 in C major, a 4 / BWV 846ii
4810Concerto B Minor - Adagio BWV 979
44albums
Das Wohltemperierte Clavier - Book 1, 1722 / BWV 846-869
Music of Tudor and Jacobean England
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Concerti BWV 972-987 - disc 2
Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccatas BWV 910-916
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Telemann: The Seven Sonatas for Recorder & Continuo
J.S. Bach: English Suites BWV 806-811 - Peter Watchorn
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Bach: Harpsichord Works
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Inventions & Sinfonias BWV 772-801
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerti BWV 972-987 - Arrangements of various other Composers Works
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Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Clavier - Book II
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Bach: The Six French Suites, Little Preludes
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Bach: The 6 French Suites, BWV 812-817 & Little Preludes, BWV 924-943