THE CONVICT HARPSICHORDIST

WITH ELIZABETH ANDERSON

 

Domenico Scarlatti: Sonatas in F minor, K386 and K387

Pietro Domenico Paradies: Sonata No. 10 in D major

J. S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue No. 24 in D major, Prelude and Fugue No. 15 in G major

George Frederick Handel: Suite No. 5 in E major

Domenico Scarlatti: Sonatas in E major, K380 and K381, Sonatas in D major, K32 and K33

Padre Antonio Soler: Sonatas in C minor, R18 and R19

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Variations on ‘Ah vous dirai-je Maman’ (Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star)

Ron Nagorcka: The Beauteous Wicked Place

John Grant, frustrated in love, shot a London lawyer in the buttock and was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey.  Granted a reprieve, he arrived at Sydney Cove in 1804, bringing with him Australia’s first harpsichord

 

SPECIAL FEATURES AND CD EXTRAS

18 Minute CD-ROM video of John Grant’s story

Comprehensive illustrated booklet with John Grant’s Story

An especially commissioned work, Ron Nagorcka’s This Beauteous Wicked Place, symbolising the reconciliation of two cultures

 

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