Richard Lester : Masterworks and Miniatures (2015)For keyboard instrumentsDuration: c. 1 hour 18 minutesFormat: 90 page A4 wire-bound sheet musicAlso includes CD, NI5931This contains 17...

Richard Lester : Masterworks and Miniatures (2015)For keyboard instrumentsDuration: c. 1 hour 18 minutesFormat: 90 page A4 wire-bound sheet musicAlso includes CD, NI5931This contains 17 complete works by Girolamo Diruta, Claudio Merulo, Andrea and Giovanni Gabreli, Gioseffo Guami, and Antonio Mortaro. In an extended preface Richard examines the contemporary performance treatise and based on them suggests possibilities for correct period fingering, ornamentation and registration for these works. The publication includes a 48 minute DVD Video, Venetian Reflections in which Richard demonstrates the practical considerations of these and includes several complete performances on both harpsichord and organ. The publication also includes the Nimbus CD recording NI 5931 of works featured in the publication performed by Richard Lester at the organ and harpsichord.Richard Lester has now established an international reputation amongst the great early keyboard players of our time. His many solo engagements have included broadcasts for BBC radio and television, recitals at the Royal Festival Hall South Bank Centre, Wigmore Hall, Bath International Festival, Bruges Festival, concerts abroad - and master classes at Dartington Summer School. In an academic capacity he has contributed articles in leading early music publications including the Hungarian book on early music, Regi Zene and also participated in a Scarlatti symposium with Peter Katin, Andreas Staier, Nikolai Demidenko and Yevgeny Sudbin. In the year 2000, he began a project to record all of Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas for Nimbus Records which received rave reviews on an unprecedented level from recording magazines and international websites. The whole project was completed in 2006 with a personal profile in Gramophone. Since then his contract with Nimbus has included recordings of sonatas by Seixas and Soler, Haydn sonatas on the Schantz fortepiano in the Bath Holbourne Museum and in 2010, a major project to record Frescobaldi's keyboard music on the Giovanni Boni harpsichord (c.1619); an instrument it is thought the composer played.