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All musical/historical analysis here on the LaripS.com web site is the personal opinion of the author,
as a researcher of historical temperaments and a performer of Bach's music.

Recordings using the
"Bach/Lehman 1722" temperament

...or whatever name the musicians and producer choose to give it!

LaripS [Catalog]

• Playing from Bach's Fancy - Bradley Lehman, harpsichord and organ. Music by JS Bach and WF Bach. Franco-Flemish harpsichord by Knight Vernon; pipe organ by Taylor & Boody, Opus 41. (January 2006) [Samples on LaripS.com] [Samples of all tracks, and some free downloads, on last.fm] [More samples on ilike.com] [Streamed samples in 20-minute programs]
• A Joy Forever - Bradley Lehman, organ. 3CD set. Music by Bach, Fischer, Brahms, Pachelbel, Sorge, Erbach, Zachow, Böhm, Walther, Froberger, et al. Pipe organ by Taylor & Boody, Opus 41. (January 2006) [Samples on LaripS.com] [Disc 1 on last.fm] [Disc 2 on last.fm] [Disc 3 on last.fm] [More samples on ilike.com] [Streamed samples in 20-minute programs]
  (The Fischer book recorded here also includes a piece formerly attributed to Bach: the ricercar chorale setting "Christ ist erstanden", BWV 746.)

Other labels

• Frog Music Press: - James Pressler, MIDI with retuned digital samples from a pipe organ in the Czech Republic. The New Bach Temperament organ 2CD set (April 2005) Additional repertoire by various composers is available free at Pressler's web site, "Virtually Baroque" (April-May 2005)
• Harmonia Mundi France 907425-26: - Richard Egarr, harpsichord. Bach: Goldberg Variations BWV 988 and 14 Canons BWV 1087. (Released March 2006)
• Anna Magdalena Bach's Book, performed by harpsichordist Elizabeth Anderson and boy soprano Jacob Lawrence (Anderson's son). Move Records #MD3304. (Released June 1 2006)
• Musica Omnia 0201: - Peter Watchorn, harpsichord and pedal harpsichord. Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1. (Released in the first week of June 2006, with eleven additional albums to follow.) Booklet essays by Bradley Lehman and Peter Watchorn.
• BIS 1472: - Ronald Brautigam, fortepiano. Beethoven Sonatas, volume 3 with sonatas 4-7. Walter-style fortepiano by Paul McNulty. (Released June 2006) [Samples]
• Brilliant Classics 93102/8: - Pieter-Jan Belder, Siebe Henstra, Menno van Delft, Musica Amphion/Belder. Bach concertos for two harpsichords BWV 1061-1062, concertos for three harpsichords BWV 1063-1064. Disc #8 in the updated 155-disc Bach Edition. (Recorded May/June 2006; released August 2006 as single disc in the Bach Edition.)
• Brilliant Classics 93187: - Pieter-Jan Belder, Siebe Henstra, Menno van Delft, Vincent van Laar, Musica Amphion/Belder. Bach concertos for two, three, and four harpsichords, BWV 1060-1065. (Recorded May/June 2006; two-disc set released in January(?) 2007.) [Samples]
• Musica Omnia: - Ensemble "Publick Musick" and Peter Watchorn. Bach cantatas: BWV 45 Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch was gut ist; BWV 62 Nun komm der Heiden Heiland; BWV 140 Wachet auf, ruf uns die Stimme; BWV 192 Nun danket alle Gott. (2007?)
• Chandos Records 0742: - Purcell Quartet + Friends; Robert Woolley, organ; Emma Kirkby, soprano; Michael Chance, alto; Charles Daniels, tenor; Peter Harvey, bass. Bach cantatas: BWV 12 Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen; BWV 18 Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt; BWV 61 Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland; BWV 161 Komm, du süße Todesstunde. (Released June 2007) The ensemble performed these cantatas live several times during October 2005; one of those performances can be heard in a broadcast on BBC Radio 3's "Early Music Show" on 19 February 2006, and during the following week as Internet replay "Sunday".
• Dorian 20604: - Bach Sinfonia, Daniel Abraham. Handel's "Alexander's Feast", plus Bach's aria BWV 1127, "Alles mit Gott". (released December 2006)
• R & V Records: Jazz CD "Impossible" by Zsolt Kaltenecker (1970-), playing solo "clavitar" (synthesizer set up to resemble an electrified clavichord). [Samples] [Order]
• Naxos 8.557966: "BACH, W.F.: Keyboard Works, Vol. 1" played by Robert Hill, fortepiano. 12 Polonaises, Sonata in D major, Fantasia in A minor. (Released November 2007)
• Channel Classics 25007: - Netherlands Bach Society, Jos van Veldhoven. Bach's B Minor Mass. (Recorded in December 2006; released in the Netherlands February 2007, with the rest of Europe and North America soon to follow.)
• Musica Omnia: Atlantis Ensemble. Mendelssohn: Piano quartets Op 1-3, and violin sonata Op 4. (Recorded April 2007)
• Beoton: Haydn sonatas played on a 1780s Regier fortepiano by Eva Mengelkoch. (Recorded in summer 2007; scheduled release March 2008)
• Schloss Niederfellabrunn: Bach's Goldberg Variations and 10 inventions/sinfonias, played by Walter Riemer on a Stein-styled fortepiano. [Samples] [Order]
• London Independent LIR014: Polonaises and Fugues by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach played by Paul Simmonds on clavichord. (Simmonds reports he did a slight tweak to the temperament, for a "quieter" E major to his taste: lowered G#?)
• Harmonia Mundi HMU907431.32: - Richard Egarr, harpsichord. Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, book 1. (Released October 2007)
• Musica Omnia 0208: Peter Watchorn, harpsichord. Bach inventions and sinfonias. (Recorded September 2007, released February 2008)
• Robert Hill's blog has many in-concert samples of various repertoire using this tuning; listen especially to the October 26 2007 performance of Bach's Ricercar a6 from the Musical Offering

Other recordings available, tuned otherwise

LaripS

• In Thee is Gladness - Martin Hodel, trumpet; Bradley Lehman, organ. Music by Buxtehude, Brahms, Bach, Viviani, Baldassare, Pachelbel, Cellier, Bernstein, Starer, and Lehman. (Two equal-tempered organs in north Germany) (January 2005) [Samples of all tracks, and some free downloads, on last.fm] [Reviewed in American Record Guide, March/April 2007]

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