John Gibbons (harpsichord), D. Stepner (v), L. Jeppesen (vdg) J-P. Rameau: Pièces de Cl. en Concert

The Boston Museum Trio. The instruments used in this recording are from the Musical Instruments Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

John Gibbons harpsichord
Harpsichord by Johannes Couchet, Antwerp, 1680 enlarged by Blanchet, Paris, 1758 rebuilt by Taskin, Paris, 1781 from the Edwin M. Ripin Collection.

Daniel Stepner baroque violin
Violin by Augustin Chappuy, Paris, 1778 unaltered; from the Edwin M. Ripin Collection.

Laura Jeppesen viola da gamba
Viola da gamba by Claude Pierray, Paris, ca. 1708; bass, seven-.stringed;
from the Leslie Lindsay Mason Collection.

Recorded in November 1978 in the French Salon of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Released unknown year by Titanic Records Ti/28
Recording engineer: David Griesinger
Production Director: Ralph Dopmeyer
Jacket: Philidor Press, Boston
Liner notes: Paul Guglietti
Cover painting: Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Le Chapeau Blanc, courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Photography: Ralph Dopmeyer

Thanks to Robert Tifft the webmaster of the European Revival Harpsichordists ( https://jsebestyen.org/harpsichord/ ) for the LP-documentation and the acoustic material to make this publication possible.

Jean-Phippe Rameau 'Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts'

SIDE A
Premier Concert
00:00 La Coulicam
02:17 La Livri
05:45 Le Vézinet

Quatrième Concert
06:16 La Pantomime
11:10 L'Indiscrète
12:36 La Rameau

Cinquième Concert
15:36 La Forqueray
17:50 La Cupis
22:48 La Marais

SIDE B
Deuxième Concert
24:21 La Laborde
27:42 La Boucon
31:23 L'Agaçante
33'04 Menuets

Troisième Concert 10'17
37:03 La La Pouplinière
39:52 La Timide
45:13 Tambourins

J0HN GIBB0NS studied piano and organ at the
Cincinnati Conservatory and the New England Conservatory
where he graduated with highest honors. In 1967 he won the
Chadwick Medal of the New England Conservatory and the
Erwin Bodky Award for performance of early music. As a
Fulbright Scholar he studied harpsichord with Gustav Leonhardt
in Amsterdam. He has performed with the New York
Pro Musica, New York Consort of Viols, Boston Camerata,
and Boston Symphony Orchestra and has played at the Mo ...
nadnock Music Festival and at Tanglewood. He is harpsichordist
to the Musical Instruments Collection, Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston and teaches at the New England Conservatory.
He has made recordings for Musical Heritage Society,
Cambridge, and Titanic Records.

DANIEL STEPNER received a Doctor of Musical
Arts degree from Yale University, where he studied violin
with Broadus Erle and was concertmaster of the New Haven
Symphony. He has distinguished himself as a violinist of great
versatility, having performed contemporary music with the
Boston Musica Viva; the sonatas of Charles Ives with pianist
John Kirkpatrick; and solo works, chamber works and con ...
certos from the baroque and classic eras on original instruments
with Banchetto Musicale. He has also served as concertmaster
of the Civic Symphony of Boston, with whom he played the
Stravinsky and Brahms concertos. He teaches at the New
England Conservatory, the Longy School and privately.

LAURA JEPPESEN earned a master's degree in
early music from Yale University in 1971. She then received
a Fulbright Scholarship to study the viola da gamba in Ger ...
many with Johannes Koch, and spent two subsequent years
in Belgium studying with Wieland Kuijken, under the aus ...
pices of the Belgian government. She has performed extensively
as a baroque violist and as a gambist in the U. S. A. and
abroad. She is a member of Banchetto Musicale and the Boston
Camerata. She teaches at the New England Conservatory and
at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.