Colors, Sounds, Emotions: A Promenade through Paintings at the Allen Memorial Art Museum

Introduction by Andria Derstine, AMAM director

Edoardo Bellotti, clavichord, harpsichord, organ

Program

Circle of Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657-1747

St. Cecilia, early 18th century

            Improvisation

Fantasia Ut re mi fa sol la(harpsichord)

Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish, 1591-1652

Ribera Blind Old Beggar, c. 1632 

Francisco Correa de Arauxo (1584-1654)

Tiento de quarto tonofrom “Facultad Organica”, 1626 (organ) 

Meindert Hobbema, Dutch, 1638–1709 

A Pond in the Forest, 1668 

                        Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)

Capriccio sopra Cucufrom “Capricci Libro Primo”, 1624 (harpsichord)

Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne, Dutch, 1589–1662

Allegory of Poverty, 1630s 

                                                Christian Ritter (1645-1725)  

                                                Suite in fis (clavichord)

                                                Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gigue

Italian, Lombard

Adoration of the Child with Portrait of Donor, ca.1500 

Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710)

Pastorale(organ)

Pierre-Antoine Patel, French, 1648-1708 

Landscape with Classical Ruins and Figures, 1698 

                        François Couperin (1668-1733)

Passacaille b minorfrom “Pieces de Clavecin”, 1717 (harpsichord)

Joseph Wright of Derby, English, 1734-1797 

Dovedale by Moonlight, 1784–85 

                                                Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 

                                                Andante from “Sonata in d minor” BWV 964 (clavichord)                                

Cavaliere d' Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari), Italian, 1568–1640

The Agony in the Garden,1597-98 

                                                Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) 

                                                Toccata in sol (organ)

Alessandro Magnasco, Italian, 1667-1749

Landscape with Washerwomen, ca. 1720

                        Improvisation:

Partite sopra Folia (harpsichord)

A.H. Dupree Italian single harpsichord (1982)

Karin Richter unfretted clavichord after Hubert (1994)

Robert Byrd Continuo Organ (1991)

Blending Past and Present: Collections and Collectors is presented by the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies and Oberlin Conservatory in celebration of Westfield’s 40th anniversary.