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Sunday Feature: Mission Harpsichord

Series 1, episode 0

Mahan Esfahani discovers why the harpsichord is an often misunderstood instrument, sometimes dividing audiences, and how its ancient keyboard also has a modern face. Mahan travels to Prague to meet his mentor, Czech harpsichord maestro Zuzana Ruzickova, and visits the workshop of young Finnish harpsichord builder Jukka Olikka. En route he hears from pianist Igor Levit about the harpsichord-piano rivalry and from composer Michael Nyman about modern harpsichord music. Mahan also visits the Rudolfinum in Prague to talk to harpsichord expert Petr Sefl and then in London he meets Barbican director Nicholas Kenyon