Your Favorite Harpsichordist(s)

[bassio]

Opinions wanted.

I add a vote for:
Scott Ross
Trevor Pinnock

(Disclaimer: I am mainly a piano guy and I am not a dedicated harpsichord fan.  )

Any nice recommended harpsichord recordings are also welcome. 

[Que]

Some favourites:

I second Scott Ross - D. Scarlatti & Bach (Erato/Warner & Disques Pelléas)
Christophe Rousset - Bach, F. Couperin, Rameau (Harmonia Mundi, Decca/L'oiseau Lyre, Ambroisie)
Ottavio Dantone - Bach (Decca, Arts Music)
Skip Sempé - Louis Couperin (Alpha)
Robert Hill - Bach (Hänssler)
Céline Frisch - Bach (Alpha, Harmonia Mundi)
Bob Van Asperen - Bach, Froberger (Virgin, Aeolus)
Noëlle Spieth - F. Couperin (Solstice)
Glen Wilson - Bach (Teldec)
Alan Curtis - Bach (Teldec)

For recommendations on specific recordings, check these threads:

Bach on the Harpsichord (lute-harpsichord, clavichord, etc.)
French Baroque Music
German Baroque Music - beyond J.S. Bach (and Händel)

Q

[Harry]

Pieter Jan Belder. may be added....Domenico Scarlatti!

[Josquin des Prez]

Scott Ross
Kenneth Gilbert

[Don]

Leonhardt is a must on any list of great harpsichordists.

A few more great ones include David Cates, Edward Parmentier, Blandine Verlet and Pierre Hantai.

[rockerreds]

Catalina Vicens,from Santiago,Chile,who graduated from Curtis recently.

[prémont]

First and foremost Leonhardt. But also many of his direct or indirect pupils are among the greatest of our day: Asperen, Wilson, Hill, Curtis, Jaccottet and Belder.

My countryman Lars Ulrik Mortensen should not be forgotten. Listen to his Bach Partitas, Toccatas, French suites, Goldbergs et.c. and his Buxtehude recordings.

Parmentier is in my opinion much too overrated. It is difficult to define his shortcomings, but I miss inner consequence in his playing.

[Don]

First and foremost Leonhardt. But also many of his direct or indirect pupils are among the greatest of our day: Asperen, Wilson, Hill, Curtis, Jaccottet and Belder.

My countryman Lars Ulrik Mortensen should not be forgotten. Listen to his Bach Partitas, Toccatas, French suites, Goldbergs et.c. and his Buxtehude recordings.

Parmentier is in my opinion much too overrated. It is difficult to define his shortcomings, but I miss inner consequence in his playing.

I agree about Mortensen.  I earlier included Parmentier for two reasons: he has a strong following among harpsichordists, and the structural detail in his performances is second to none.  However, I do find his emotional level less than compelling.

[prémont]

I agree about Mortensen.  I earlier included Parmentier for two reasons: he has a strong following among harpsichordists, and the structural detail in his performances is second to none.  However, I do find his emotional level less than compelling.

Yes Parmentier is brilliant but shallow.

I forgot by the way the Bach interpreter second only to Leonhardt: Helmut Walcha. Not the least HIP, but certainly in his own class.

[val]

Gustav Leonhardt

Pierre Hantai

Scott Ross

Christophe Rousset

Bob van Asperen

[Daverz]

Luciano Sgrizzi
Maggie Cole

[FideLeo]

What!  The young Germans got left out (again)? 

Andreas Staier
Christine Schornsheim

The "Hamburg 1734" and "Mozart am Stein Vis-a-vis" albums from the duo are priceless, not to mention their Soler "Fandango" arrangement for two keyboards - sensational! 

[Harry]

What!  The young Germans got left out (again)? 

Andreas Staier
Christine Schornsheim

The "Hamburg 1734" and "Mozart am Stein Vis-a-vis" albums from the duo are priceless, not to mention their Soler "Fandango" arrangement for two keyboards - sensational! 

Well done, they are indeed to be included in the list......

[FideLeo]

Davitt Moroney (Bach, Couperin, Byrd)
The Hyperion complete Byrd keyboard music project derives from Moroney's PhD thesis at UC Berkley
Moroney's recording of Die Kunst der Fuge contains his own solution to the unfinished Contrapunctus.

Siegbert Rampe (Bach, Bull, Sweelinck, Froberger, Muffat) 
Rampe is the chief editor for Barenreiter's Froberger collected works.

[Don]

Davitt Moroney (Bach, Couperin, Byrd)
The Hyperion complete Byrd keyboard music project derives from Moroney's PhD thesis at UC Berkley
Moroney's recording of Die Kunst der Fuge contains his own solution to the unfinished Contrapunctus.

I entirely forgot about Moroney; he's another winner.  I love his Art of Fugue and set of harpsichord music by Louis Couperin.