The harpsichord is a beautiful but notoriously fussy instrument. After we wheeled one behind Bob Boilen's desk, it took the bulk of an hour to get the tuning just perfect for the very first Tiny Desk ...
“Controversial artist” is not one of the images that a professional harpsichordist tends to conjure. It cuts against the grain of countless stereotypes involving restraint, uptightness, dusty ...
Musician Mahan Esfahani performs March 6 at Stanford Live. Courtesy Kaja Smith. Catch concerts and film screenings March 6 and 7 as harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani comes to Stanford Live and ...
Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani performs a recital at the Walt Disney Concert Hall Wednesday. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times) The audience was small. The slight keyboard instrument painted green ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Esfahani performs a recital full of extraordinary color, vitality, and freshness, ...
Mahan Esfahani is obsessed with the harpsichord — he has been ever since he was a kid. The Iranian American wunderkind — he already has won numerous awards and was selected “Newcomer of the Year” by ...
Mahan Esfahani, whose new album, “Bach: The Six Partitas,” was just released on Hyperion, wants to restore the harpsichord to the classical mainstream, where its position was usurped two centuries ago ...
It's not every day that you get to hear a lively discussion about a musical instrument that was once said to sound like two skeletons copulating on a roof. (SOUNDBITE OF MAHAN ESFAHANI SONG) SIEGEL: ...
Mahan Esfahani / Richard Goode, Wigmore Hall review - clarity and contrast from two keyboard masters
On Saturday the Tehran-born, US-raised harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani continued a mammoth project: he has been invited by the Wigmore Hall to present more or less the entirety of Bach’s works for ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The late Sir Thomas Beecham, music director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, ...
The audience was small. The slight keyboard instrument painted green on the stage wasn’t imposing. Beyond the first few rows of Walt Disney Concert Hall Wednesday, the delicate sound it made was faint ...
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