Tom Foster

MUSIC
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2020
7:30 PM

Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan

$56-$67
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2020/02/13/Tom-Foster-Harpsichord-0730PM

Everyone who saw the English Concert's concert performance of Handel's Rinaldo in Carnegie's main auditorium a couple of years ago had to be stunned by Tom Foster's dazzling account of the virtuoso harpsichord solos, ringing out in hall like a carrillion, eliciting palpable delight on the part of the audience.  And I'm sure everyone in the hall decided then and there that they wanted to see the hitherto unknown harpischordist in a solo recital.  Here's our chance.  Of course he's playing Handel's Fifth Harpsichord Suite, with its "Harmonious Blacksmith" finale that rings out like the solos in Rinaldo.  The rest of the program is pleasing and interesting stuff from composers like Froberger, Moffat, and Mattheson (the latter a current obsession of Your Compiler:  how can this striking music be so little known?). 

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Trattoria Dell'Arte has been a favorite of Carnegie audiences from the day it opened.