“Violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock was the featured soloist, and her performance was dazzling. She was able to elicit a hauntingly beautiful tone.… The audience was transfixed, leaning forward silently to hear every note of these pianissimo passages.”—Peninsula Reviews

“Zhu’s butter-smooth sound [is] perfectly suited to her long chromatic lines.”—Boston Musical Intelligencer

“Hamada’s playing is skillful and adroit … with powerful strokes and phrasing of music that seems to flash from one subject to another, now an ostinato bass, now rushing runs and sequences.”—Fanfare

Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts

The three “crème de la crème” early music performers present all five of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Pièces de clavecin en concerts of 1741, replete with virtuosic obbligato keyboard parts and equally acrobatic violin and viola da gamba accompaniment. A summation of late French baroque writing, the fanciful movements delight the ear with their vivid drama and sensuality.

Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin
Beiliang Zhu, viola da gamba
Aya Hamada, harpsichord

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