Contemporary music on an authentic instrument; is Goska Isphording the living proof of the emancipation of the harpsichord, finally? In any case she shows us what the baroque instrument, in this 21st Century, can also do – with a quartet of four living composers in her programme. From the funebre sounds of Graciane Finzi, including tape, to the vocal beauty of Pēteris Vasks, across Icelandic landscapes in a composition that Anna Thorvaldsdottir wrote for Isphording, all the way to a new minimalist work by Janco Verduin – it’s time to hear harpsichord 2.0.
