Krebs: French Overture (Rebecca Pechefsky)

Harpsichordist Rebecca Pechefsky of Brooklyn Baroque performs the Overture that opens the "Overture in the French Style" (1741) by Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713-1780), J. S. Bach's star pupil. Krebs's overture-suite was plainly a response to Bach's own "Overture in the French Manner," a large-scale keyboard suite published in 1735. This video marks the first collaboration between Quill Classics and Overtone Films, LLC, which specializes in classical music films. For more information on the performer, visit rebeccapechefsky.com.

From Overture in the French Style (1741);
in Vier Piecen, edited by Felix Friedrich
(Locarno: Noetzel Edition, 1994).

Produced for Quill Classics by Overtone Films, LLC.

Producer and Director: HILAN WARSHAW
Videographer: ZACH KUPERSTEIN
Video Editor: HILAN WARSHAW
Audio Engineer: ERIK RYDING

Double-manual Flemish harpsichord by Dominic Eckersley and Peter Fisk, 2000.

Recorded at Redeemer Lutheran Church
Glendale, New York, May 23, 2010.

Thanks to Reverend William Wrede and
Redeemer Lutheran Church for use of the space
for this video recording.

Reproduced pages from the original edition of the Overture courtesy of the Sibley Music Library at the Eastman School of Music.

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