Alan Cuckston
Alan George Cuckston (2 July 1940 – 22 March 2025) was an English harpsichordist, pianist, conductor and lecturer. He recorded for the BBC, especially on historic instruments. Cuckston was the harpsichordist in the 1968 Proms concert of Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine by the Monteverdi Choir, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. He toured internationally with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Pro Cantione Antiqua. He recorded a broad repertoire of music for keyboards instruments, including the complete piano works by Alan Rawsthorne.
Genre: harpsichord
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Top Tracks
- Trio Sonata for 2 Violins and Continuo in G minor, Op. 5, No. 5, HWV 400: 5. Bourrée
- Dunstable: Crux fidelis
- Cooke: Alma proles regina (From British Library MS 57950 "Old Hall Manuscript")
- Sonata in G minor for 2 violons and continuo: 4. Allegro
- Sonata in G minor for 2 violons and continuo: 3. Largo
- Sonata in G minor for 2 violons and continuo: 2. Allegro
- Sonata in G minor for 2 violons and continuo: 1. Andante
- Sonata in F for 2 violons and continuo: 4. Allegro
- Sonata in F for 2 violons and continuo: 3. Adagio
- Sonata in F for 2 violons and continuo: 2. Allegro
- Sonata in F for 2 violons and continuo: 1. Andante
- Trio Sonata for 2 Violins and Continuo in G minor, Op. 2, No. 5, HWV 390a: 4. Allegro
- Trio Sonata for 2 Violins and Continuo in G minor, Op. 2, No. 5, HWV 390a: 3. Adagio
- Trio Sonata for 2 Violins and Continuo in G minor, Op. 2, No. 5, HWV 390a: 2. Allegro
- Trio Sonata for 2 Violins and Continuo in G minor, Op. 2, No. 5, HWV 390a: 1. Larghetto - Adagio
- Trio Sonata for 2 Violins and Continuo in B flat, Op. 2, No. 3, HWV 388: 4. Allegro
- Trio Sonata for 2 Violins and Continuo in B flat, Op. 2, No. 3, HWV 388: 3. Larghetto
- Trio Sonata for 2 Violins and Continuo in B flat, Op. 2, No. 3, HWV 388: 2. Allegro
- Trio Sonata for 2 Violins and Continuo in B flat, Op. 2, No. 3, HWV 388: 1. Andante - Adagio
- Dunstable: Albanus roseo rutilat
Albums (40)
- Baroque Dances (2024)
- Academy of St Martin in the Fields: Baroque Landscapes (2024)
- Ars britannica. Old Hall Manuscript, Madrigals & Lute Songs (2023)
- The Nightingale (2021)
- Handel - 50 of the Best (2013)
- 50 Early Music & Baroque Masterpieces (2013)
- TV Classics: Classical Music from Television Series and Commercials (2013)
- Telemann: Twelve Fantasias for Violin Solo; Five Violin Concertos (2013)
- Classical Music at the Movies - Epics and Drama (2012)
- 101 Baroque (2012)
- Handel for Meditation (2007)
- Essential Baroque (2006)
- Handel (The Very Best Of) (2005)
- Handel: Complete Chamber Music (2002)
- Classics at the Movies: Epics (2000)
- Lilacs in the Rain - Piano Music of Reginald King (1970)
- Rameau: Harpsichord Music, Vol. 1 (1997)
- The Flowering of Renaissance Choral Music (1994)
- Classical Music Start-Up Kit, Vol. 1: 1500-1825 (1993)
- Discover The Classics, Vol. 1 (1993)
- Discover Classical Music (1993)
- Rameau: Pieces De Clavecin / Cinq Pieces / La Dauphine (1991)
- Rameau: Harpsichord Suites / Nouvelles Suites (1991)
- Couperin, F.: Suites for Harpsichord Nos. 6, 8 & 11 (1991)
- Couperin, F.: Pieces De Clavecin, Books 3 and 4 (Excerpts) (1991)
- Couperin, F. : Suites for Harpsichord Nos. 22, 23, 25 & 26 (1991)
- COUPERIN, F.: Suites for Harpsichord Nos. 6, 8 and 11 (1991)
- GERMAN: Piano Works (1991)
- Lakeland Pictures - Piano Music of Herbert Howells and Armstrong Gibbs (1970)
- Handel: Harpsichord Suites Nos. 1- 5 (1990)
- Handel: Harpsichord Suites Nos. 6 - 8 (1990)
- Music of Alan Rawsthorne for Violin and Piano (1970)
- John Field Nocturnes and Rondos (1970)
- For Percy Grainger (1970)
- The Organ at Adlington Hall (1970)
- The Hounds of Spring - English Dances and Preludes 1905 - 1935 (1970)
- Songs and Piano Music by Alan Rawsthorne (1970)
- Alan Cuckston plays Harpsichord Favourites (1970)
- The Organs at Heaton Hall, Manchester (1970)
- Telemann: Five Violin Concertos (1984)
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