Davitt Moroney
Davitt Moroney is one of today's top specialists in older keyboard instruments, one who has delved deeply into the music and aesthetics of French and English harpsichord music. He has perhaps the most scholarly orientation among leading early music performers, but his performances are accessible to any listener. Born in Britain of Irish-Italian ancestry, he studied in England, France, and the United States, coming to early music through scholarly study. His PhD, granted at the University of California in 1980, dealt with the choral music of Tallis and Byrd. Through the 1970s, however, he studied organ (with the Austrian player Susi Jeans) and harpsichord (with the Canadian Kenneth Gilbert), and after finishing his degree he embarked on a career as a recitalist, with Paris as his home base.
Moroney has released over 50 compact discs of keyboard music of the 16th through 17th centuries, as a soloist, chamber player, and participant in concertos, winning several Gramophone Awards and France's Grand Prix du Disque de l'Académie Charles Cros. His most ambitions project, which took 15 years of planning, research, and rehearsal, is a complete survey of the keyboard music of the great Elizabethan-era English composer William Byrd. A seven-disc set (for the price of five), on the Hyperion label, it was the first album of its kind. Meticulously researched, it includes a 45,000-word program book written by Moroney himself. The recording uses the most appropriate instruments available, including two different harpsichords, clavichord, chamber organ, the Ahrend organ of the Church-Museum des Augustins, Toulouse, and a muselar virginal especially built for the recording. Many of the recordings were made in the actual locations where Byrd himself had played his music, including Lincoln Cathedral, Ingatestone Hall in Essex, and L'Abbaye Royale de Fontevraid, France.
Despite all the research and intellectual effort involved, and the strict authenticity for which he strives, Moroney's performances are vivid and expressive, delighting contemporary audiences. One way he is known for putting his insights across to audiences is to address them directly. In the year 2000, Moroney's biography Bach: An Extraordinary Life appeared, and his critical edition of Bach's Art of the Fugue (one of over a dozen he has edited) included a new completion of that work's massive, unfinished closing fugue. Since 2001 he has been professor of music and university organist at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Discography
18 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Byrd: The Complete Keyboard Music
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 1 sep. 1999
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J.S. Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080 (The Art of Fugue) (Davitt Moroney)
Klassiek - Released by harmonia mundi on 28 nov. 1986
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Music from the Borel Manuscript and other sources, Vol. 2
Klassiek - Released by Plectra Music on 1 jan. 2008
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Music from the Borel Manuscript and other sources, Vol. 1
Klassiek - Released by Plectra Music on 1 jan. 2008
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Pièces pour le clavier
Kamermuziek - Released by Tempéraments - Radio France on 28 okt. 1996
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L'Œuvre d'orgue
Kamermuziek - Released by Tempéraments - Radio France on 1 nov. 1995
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Le Clavecin Français: François Couperin, L'Art de Toucher le Clavecin & Second Livre de Pièces de Clavecin
Klassiek - Released by Plectra Music on 23 mei 2014
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Bach, J.S.: Concertos for 3 & 4 Harpsichords
Christopher Hogwood, Davitt Moroney, Christophe Rousset, Colin Tilney, Academy of Ancient Music
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 1992
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François Couperin: Le Clavecin Français - Quatrième Livre de Pièces de Clavecin
Klassiek - Released by Plectra Music on 2 mei 2018
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Purcell: Ayres & Songs from Orpheus Britannicus, Harmonia Sacra & Complete Organ Music
Jill Feldman, Nigel North, Sarah Cunningham, Davitt Moroney
Klassiek - Released by Arcana on 14 apr. 2017
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Le Clavecin Francais: Francois Couperin, Pieces de Clavecin, Premier Livre
Klassiek - Released by Plectra Music on 28 mei 2012
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Couperin: Complete Harpsichord Works (Davitt Moroney)
Kamermuziek - Released by harmonia mundi on 29 dec. 2009
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Le Clavecin Français: François Couperin: Troisième Livre de Pièces de Clavecin
Klassiek - Released by Plectra Music, Inc. on 27 mei 2016
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Bach: French Suites
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 1 nov. 1999
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Le Clavecin Français: Louis Marchand & Louis-Nicolas Clérambault
Klassiek - Released by Plectra Music on 1 jan. 2007
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Siret: Suites pour clavier du second livre
Klassiek - Released by Universal Music Division Decca Records France on 1 jan. 2004
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Bach: Six Sonatas for Harpsichord and Violin
Klassiek - Released by Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group on 11 jan. 2020
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Bach: Flute Sonatas, Vol. 1
Davitt Moroney, Janet See, Mary Springfels
Klassiek - Released by harmonia mundi on 10 mei 1991
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo