Mersenne’s Clavichord

Product Description Considered one of the leading early-music specialists in Europe, Terence Charlston introduces a unique instrument in his new release Mersenne’s Clavichord, a clavichord built to plans and specifications by Marin Mersenne in his 1636 treatise Harmonie Universelle. This collection includes primarily French compositions of the 16th and 17th centuries, and Charleston vividly demonstrates the now rarely heard sound-world of the instrument which was so familiar to the composers of that day. Review “This pleasant album is more important for scholars of music and keyboard buffs than your casual listener, though it’s a nice enough collection. It’s got a nice early music feel to it…it’s a music geek’s delight, as Charleston plays music of the period, recreating a sound that has probably not been heard for several hundred years: it’s how early French keyboard music would have sounded to the audiences of the day. You’ve got to admire the energy behind the enterprise.” –Jeremy Condliffe, The Chronicle

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