Hi Tilman,
I can offer my own impressions as an enthusiastic listener.
David Catalunya's hour of Faenza 117 on his hammered clavicembalom was nothing short of magical. Absolutely mesmerizingly, achingly beautiful. His music perhaps made the most indelible impression on me. Ed Parmentier's recital was a wonderful and rare musical experience; built on 50 years of experience and a pretty profound understanding of this music, he carried all the principles of great harpsichord playing - speech, dance, gesture, polyphony, a huge variety of touches, to their ultimate conclusion, and then just jumped off and was masterfully spontaneous, impish, and unusual. How rare and wonderful that kind of playing is.
Carole Cerasi played both the Vaudry by Owen Daly - d'Anglebert and things, and then the brand spanking new Blanchet by Bruce Kennedy. The sounds she drew from the instruments were absolutely sublime, and her playing was lovely. Day two, Ignacio Prego's Froberger and Bach recital was assured, graceful, and terrific. And to close the event, Jean-Luc Ho was simply understated, bang-on genius. He played his lush and sensual setting of J'avais cru qu'en vous aymant from Ballard's 1705 Brunetes and made at least one person cry. Indescribable beauty.  

David

> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 23:31:13 -0500
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> Subject: "Cembalophilia" impressions anyone?
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> Just returned (to Bremen, on my way home) from Berkeley's recent harpsichord event "Cembalophilia", I wonder whether some of the, hum, "harpsichord peeps" who were present might like to share their impressions, in order to enliven this list and enlighten those who might have an interest but weren't there. 
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> Thing is, my own report isn't ready yet -- and it will appear in the Westfield Newsletter, which makes me hesitant to go pre-fire snippets here, for once. Aaand it would be great to hear how the thing was experienced by people who weren't jetlagged like myself! (I enjoyed myself greatly, it isn't that...)
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> Tilman
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