Harpsichord music on the Soundboard record label

[This site now incorporates the Soundboard-Records website.
Click for Sheet Music, below.]

All my recordings prior to 2018 are available for download, track by track, from the usual media outlets.

However, the most recent releases are only available as CDs, as the sound quality is far more realistic and therefore more enjoyable. Also, I take great care in the preparation of informative booklet notes. (The notes for Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier have prompted high praise in their own right.) CDs also make an attractive and durable gift!

Soundboard records catalogue

SPECIAL OFFER EXTENDED!
THREE CDs FOR THE PRICE OF TWO
(exceptional offer includes both of the new double-CD releases -
Books One and Two of J S Bach’s The Well-tempered Clavier)
Buy any 3 CDs for only £28.
All prices include postage and packing.

J S Bach
The Well-tempered Clavier, Book One

(2 CDs) £14.00

J S Bach
The Well-tempered Clavier, Book Two

(2 CDs) £14.00

The Melodious Birde
Keyboard Music by William Byrd

£14.00

Louis Couperin
Harpsichord Music

£14.00

Grounds for Pleasure

£14.00

J S Bach
Goldberg Variations

£14.00

Buxtehude
Suites and Variations

£14.00

Mattheson
Harmony’s Monument

(2 CDs) £14.00

Frescobaldi
Keyboard Music

£14.00

Purcell Purcell -
The English Orpheus

£14.00

Peter Philips -
The English Exile

£14.00

Dark Harpsichord Music

£14.00

Croft William Croft
Keyboard Music

£14.00

For enquiries (for example concerning large orders, or if you prefer to pay by cheque), please don’t hesitate to contact me directly.

Sheet Music - Arrangement of Bach’s Chaconne in D minor

Many of today’s leading harpsichordists have made their own arrangements of this mighty piece. I first heard such a performance when given by Gustav Leonhardt in 1986. The harpsichord is particularly effective in conveying its mood and stature, and it presents the player with a single movement more than ten minutes long, which is a rarity in the harpsichord repertoire.

sheet music of Chaconne
arranged for harpsichord

My own arrangement for the harpsichord of the Chaconne (the concluding movement of Bach’s Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin) is available to download as sheet music from www.devinemusic.co.uk.

Here are the first few bars:

It can be heard in its entirety on the CD Bach by Arrangement and also - transposed down to the more sombre key of A minor - on Dark Harpsichord Music, above.