Raven imports 14 CD titles recorded by British harpsichordist and harpsichord builder Colin Booth. Released in February 2021 is the second volume of works by Johann Mattheson (1681–1764), a great friend of G. F. Handel in Hamburg despite a duel they fought.
Mattheson's Twelve Fugues published in 1735 in Hamburg and dedicated to Handel are played by Booth on a two-manual, brass-strung harpsichord he built in 2016 in replication of one built in 1661 by Nicholas Celini, but with extended compass (Soundboard SBCD-216 $16.98). It is the same harpsichord used for Booth's celebrated CDs of Bach's Well Tempered Clavier, Book I Soundboard SBCD-218 2 CDs, $16.98, and Book II Soundboard SBCD-219 2 CDs, $16.98.
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