David Ponsford is an organist, harpsichordist, musicologist and conductor, and an authority on keyboard music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was extremely fortunate to be able to study organ with Peter Hurford, Lionel Rogg and Piet Kee, and harpsichord with Kenneth Gilbert and Gustav Leonhardt. Since 2021, he has taught organ and harpsichord & organ continuo at the Royal Academy of Music, London. The present CD is volume 8 in the series ‘French Organ Music from the Golden Age’, performed by David Ponsford on French historic organs.
Works:
•Gaspard Corrette: Orgelmesse im 8. Ton
•Gaspard Corrette: Graduel; Elevation
•Jean-Francois Dandrieu: Offertoire
•Jean-Francois Dandrieu: Tierce en Taille
•Jean-Francois Dandrieu: Magnificat
•Jean-Francois Dandrieu: Noel
•Jean-Francois Dandrieu: Ofertoire pour le jour de Paques