A selection of keyboard music of Frescobaldi played on an anonymous seventeenth-century harpsichord. The program is balanced: two longish pieces and groups of shorter works, some dance-based, some contrapuntal, some in toccata form. The audience will be invited to look over or try out the instrument, as time permits.

Gavin Black is Director of the Princeton Early Keyboard Center, where he teaches harpsichord, clavichord, organ, and continuo playing. He has recorded organ and harpsichord music of Bach, Buxtehude, Sweelinck, Frescobaldi, Pachelbel, and others for MHS, PGM, and Centaur. He is an active recitalist mainly in the Northeast.

Gavin Black, harpsichord