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Recordings in Historical Temperaments Edition Bachakademie Vol 116 - Well-Tempered Clavier Book I Release Date: 07/25/2000 Bachakademie Vol 117 - Well-Tempered Clavier Book II Release Date: 07/25/2000 Available at www.arkivmusic.com. At the home page when it prompts you to “find by catalog number,” type in 92116 and, separately, 92117.
Six degrees of tonality: A well-tempered piano by Domenico Scarlatti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn (Audio CD) Composer: Domenico Scarlatti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, et al. Performer: Enid Katahn Label: Gasparo Records - #344 Audio CD (April 24, 2001) ASIN: B00005B7GY Available at Amazon.com.
I haven’t heard the above recordings, which are said (by Kyle Gann, whose informative web site is http://home.earthlink.net/~kgann/histune.html#hist6) to be in various historical tunings. Gann lists one other recording that I haven’t been able track down on the Internet yet.
The website http://www.frogmusic.com/bt.html features CDs of works by Bach and Purcell played on synthesized organ and harpsichord in many different historical tunings. For the sake of comparison, the same piece is played on a number of different temperaments/tunings such as Equal temperament, Werckmeister I and III, Kirnberger, Valotti, Young I and II, Meantone, and Pythagorean. “To ensure that the use of the temperaments would not influence the performance of the music, the music was prepared in the form of a MIDI file by James Pressler, creator of Bach By Immersion.” I haven’t heard these recordings either.
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