You're invited to join us in the Robinson College Chapel on Friday 7 March, 6.30pm, for a Harpsichord recital by Professor Joyce Lindorff, featuring works by François Couperin (1668-1733). 

Joyce Lindorff is a harpsichord performer, scholar and educator with a focus on early keyboard performance practice and history. Currently a Visiting Scholar at Clare Hall in the Faculty of Music, she is on sabbatical from Temple University in Philadelphia, where she is Professor of Keyboard Studies.  Read more on the Clare Hall website here

“Performing with refinement and...a myriad of colors...”
    --The Washington Post

“Lindorff is that rare artist who plays the keyboard as a fine Lieder singer singing....zesty and scholarly at the same time...”
    --The San Francisco Chronicle

“One was transported to a world of infinite grace and sophistication.”
    --The South China Morning Post

“Sterling  clarity and insight were hallmarks of her playing throughout...dazzling technical mastery...”
        --The Philadelphia Inquirer 

Music of François Couperin (1668-1733)
Joyce Lindorff, harpsichord
 

Seventh Prelude (from L’art de toucher le clavecin)

Sixth Ordre (Pièces de Clavecin, Bk 2)     
    Les Moissonneurs (The harvesters)    
    Les Langueurs-Tendres (Languishing tenderly) 
    Le Gazouillement (The chirping)
    La Bersan (Portrayal of André Bauyn)
    Les Baricades Mistérieuses (The mysterious barricades)
    Les Bergeries (The sheepfold)
    La Commère (The gossip)    
    Le Moucheron (The gnat)

Le Rossignol-en-amour (Fourteenth Ordre, Bk 3)

Le Tic-Toc-Choc (Eighteenth Ordre, Bk 3)