The CCHK is delighted to announce that David Yearsley, Herbert Gussman Professor of Music, has just released a colorful new album, Handel’s Organ Banquet.
Hailed along with his contemporary J. S. Bach as the greatest organist of his age, Handel left behind almost no solo works for the King of Instruments. Undaunted, David fires up the famed Cornell Baroque Organ and cooks up a menu of vivid reimaginings—not mere reheatings—of some of the timeless hit-maker’s winning recipes. The feast’s first and last courses are the opening and closing numbers of Messiah, the finale featuring a four-part fugal cadenza for the feet alone! In between, the table is heaped with sumptuous portions of other succulent fare from operas and oratorios, concertos and sonatas. On the way out the door, there is a bonbon of a bonus track.
Funded by the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards, the banquet is now being served up on False Azure Records, a label recently founded by Cornell D.M.A. and Bard College faculty member Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, a frequent return guest to our campus as a pianist.
Handel’s Organ Banquet is now available as a CD and as a digital album on Bandcamp:
False Azure Records and the CCHK would be grateful for your support!
More on the recording here, including the interview with David:
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Handel's Organ Banquet False Azure Records Ryan McCullogh David Yearsley
