Name: Jean Rondeau, Harpsichord
Start: 2023-11-08T18:00:00
Location: Alexander Hall

Jean Rondeau

Princeton University Concerts

Whatever your preconceptions of the harpsichord may be, Jean Rondeau will undoubtedly shatter them all as he takes us to Parnassus, the mythological mountain home of the Muses. Leading the charge of a new generation of keyboardists (including as a founding member of the Jupiter Ensemble, which made a rousing debut in our 2022-23 season), he makes his inaugural PUC appearance with a program exploring the stunning range of the harpsichord. Through works spanning the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—much of it originally written for the piano—this “champion of his instrument” (Le Temps) asks us to consider what piano repertoire might illuminate about the harpsichord, and what the harpsichord might reveal about music composed for the piano. 

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Jean Rondeau, Harpsichord

Alexander Hall

Gradus ad Parnassum

Divertimento in A-flat major

Fantasia No. 3

Piano Sonata No. 16

Rondo in A minor

2 Preludes

Harpeggio and Fuga in G Major