An overview of keyboards and keyboard music from the Baroque to Romanticism

“It is principally in improvisations or fantasias that the keyboardist can best master the feelings of his audience,” writes C.P.E. Bach in his seminal treatise on playing keyboard instruments. This programme invites you in to the musical minds of Bach (younger and elder), Louis Couperin and Michelangelo Rossi as well as Chopin and Mozart, as they exhibit their extraordinary creativity and inventiveness through the medium of the (un)notated prelude and fantasy.