Contents

Foreword vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Part One: Memoirs
1 Memoirs, 1933–77 11
Part Two: Reflections
2 On Performing 49
3 On Recording 63
4 On Chamber Music 75
5 On Harpsichords and Their Transport 83
Part Three: Essays
6 Elliott Carter’s Double Concerto (ca. 1973) 95
7 On Editing Bach’s Goldberg Variations: For Arthur Mendel
(March 31, 1973) 99
8 RK and Music at JE (1983) 102
9 The Equipment and Education of a Musician (1971) 105
10 Bach and Mozart for Violin and Harpsichord (ca. 1944) 110
11 The Early Piano (Broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Music Weekly,
September 23, 1973) 113
Part Four: Lectures (Yale University, 1969–71)
12 Bach and Keyboard Instruments 121
13 In Search of Scarlatti’s Harpsichord 130
14 Style in Performance 142
15 The Performer’s Pilgrimage to the Sources 151
16 Private Virtue and Public Vice in the Performance
of “Early Music” 159
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