At Bach Collegium San Diego concert on Saturday, Beethoven and Mozart were performed on period instruments
It’s not every day that a fortepiano comes to town, so Bach Collegium San Diego’s Saturday concert featuring Sylvia Berry was an event worth attending. It was a treat to hear the distinct timbre of this predecessor to the modern grand piano played in a sympathetic venue like All Souls’ Episcopal Church.modeled on the Viennese fortepianos that Anton Walter made. Mozart and Haydn both owned a Walter fortepiano, and Beethoven wished for one.
There are no copper-wound strings in a Walter fortepiano. There is more uniformity of tone than a modern grand, but less volume and a more metallic sound, somewhat like a hammered dulcimer played with a soft mallet.mechanism shifted the keyboard hammers over to omit one string across the instrument’s range, activated by a knee lever. This had a rather startling contrast in tone compared to the “soft pedal” on modern instruments.
Fortepianist Sylvia Berry, violinist Andrew McIntosh, violist Andrew Waid and cellist Heather Vorwerck perform for Bach Collegium San Diego on June 3 at All Souls’ Episcopal Church in San Diego. McIntosh joined Berry for a “Pastiche Sonata” cobbled together from movements by Johan Schobert, Luigi Boccherini, and Johann Christian Bach. All three movements were from works designated as “Sonatas for keyboard and violin,” with the emphasis on the keyboard part.Sonata in D minor, Op. 14, no. 4
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