Christopher Wood - Le clavecin de Haendel (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Christopher Wood began his musical career as a chorister at St. George's Chapel, Windsor. He studied music at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, where Boris Ord was one of his teachers, and then at the RCM, under Herbert Howells, Gordon Jacobs and Arthur Benjamin. In the summer vacations he studied conducting at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Clemens Krauss, Bruno Walter and Herbert von Karajan. His principal piano teacher was Adelina de Lara, a pupil of Clara Schumann and Brahms. He studied the harpsichord with Rudolphe Dolmetsch and Dorothy Swainson.

Wood had a lifelong career in music as both teacher and performer. As a harpsichordist, he played a part in the early music revival. He was a friend of the Dolmetsch family and played in the Haslemere Festival from 1947 onwards. Several of his own compositions are for viols or the recorder.

From 1947 to 1967 he was on the staff of Trinity College of Music, where he taught piano, harpsichord, orchestration, harmony and counterpoint. For much of his life he lectured in adult and further education, latterly in Newcastle-on-Tyne.

He made recordings of the Bach Harpsichord Concertos and the Handel Suites and produced editions of baroque sonatas for several publishers.

His only published composition is his Third Piano Sonata (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1943), but he was a prolific composer writing across a wide variety of genres, from piano solos to opera. In 2001, Trinity College of Music received the present collection which, in addition to the autograph scores of most of his works, includes much biographical and documentary material.

Tracklist:
01. Lesson No. 1 in B-Flat Major: No. 1, Air et variations
02. Lesson No. 1 in B-Flat Major: No. 2, Prélude
03. Suite XIV in G Major: I. Allemande
04. Suite XIV en sol majeur: Allegro in G Major
05. Suite XIV en sol majeur: Courante in G Major
06. Suite XIV en sol majeur: Air in G Major
07. Suite XIV en sol majeur: Menuet in G Major
08. Suite XIV en sol majeur: Gavotte et le double de la gavotte in G Major
09. Suite XIV en sol majeur: Gigue in G Major
10. Suite IX en sol mineur: Allemande in G Minor
11. Suite IX en sol mineur: Courante in G Minor
12. Suite IX en sol mineur: Gigue in G Minor
13. Lesson N°III en sol majeur: Chaconne - Variations 1 à 10 in G Major
14. Lesson N°III en sol majeur: Variations 11 à 21 in G Major
15. Menuet en sol mineur: Menuet in G Minor


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