Justin Taylor

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Photo Courtesy of JB Milliot

Following last season’s success, Justin Taylor returns to the Lights of Early Music Festival to present a program that vindicates the harpsichord as a solo instrument with a repertoire that goes beyond the usual selection of music from the 17th and 18th centuries. 

Taylor’s concert features works by Domenico Scarlatti, Pare Antoni Soler, and György Ligeti. The music of the 18th and 20th centuries shake hands and enter into dialogue, at times contradicting and at times complementing each other.

The challenge is both technical and musical, but the performance of the young harpsichord player not only makes the works converse, but he also illuminates them, discovering aesthetic proposals and demonstrating compositional resources that were surprisingly familiar among composers distant in time. Like the great performers throughout the history of the harpsichord, Taylor explores and offers new composers the expressive and mechanical possibilities of a 21st-century instrument, moving seamlessly between sonatas, passacaglia, continua, and fandangos.

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