Recorded samples

LaripS 1002 and 1003 were released January 4th 2006. Both are in the Bach temperament, recorded at Goshen College (Indiana, USA). #1002 is a set of three solo organ recitals, on three CDs. #1003 has one hour of music on harpsichord, plus a 20-minute section of bonus tracks on organ.

LaripS 1001 "In Thee is Gladness" was released in January 2005. It is a program of music for organ and trumpet, performed in equal temperament on two organs in north Germany.

The following samples are all performed by Bradley Lehman.

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• Prelude in C major from Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" book 1, played on harpsichord. [Cleaner studio recording on LaripS 1003] (No sharps or flats in the key signature, but each available "black" note appears as the music progresses, against the background of all the "white" notes.)
• Fugue in F# minor from Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" book 1, played on harpsichord. [LaripS 1003] (Three sharps in the signature, and many other sharps along the way. See also Laurence Dreyfus's analysis in Bach and the Patterns of Invention, 1996, pp 155-9.)
• Sinfonia in G minor by Bach, played on harpsichord. [LaripS 1003] (Also known as a "three-part invention"....)
• Fantasia in E-flat major (excerpt) by Pachelbel, played on organ. A toccata-like piece that wanders into uncommonly deep flats of Ab/Db/Gb/Cb in this section near the end. [See especially Peter Williams's mention of this piece in discussion of Bach's BWV 622, in The Organ Music of J S Bach 2nd edition, 2003.]
• JKF Fischer's Preludes and fugues in E major, F minor, F major, F# minor, G minor, and Bb major from Ariadne musica, played on organ. [LaripS 1002]
• Bach's O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß BWV 622, played on organ. [LaripS 1002] (Three flats, and a famous spot going to C-flat major near the end.)
• Brahms's O Welt, ich muss dich lassen Op posth 122 #3, composed c1896 near the end of Brahms's life. Played on organ.
  • First it is in equal temperament on a Beckerath organ [LaripS 1001];
  • and then in Bach's temperament on the Taylor & Boody Opus 41 [LaripS 1002].
• A lullaby in B major (five sharps), and then transposed to B-flat major (two flats) [informal videocam recordings to MP3] [The printed music]
• CPE Bach, Württemberg Sonata #2 in A-flat, 1st-2nd movements, 1742 - performed on a Yamaha piano, from a church service in October 2009. The video's captions describe the 17 notes required by the composition, and point out some of the musical features along the way. This is a piece that according to Di Veroli's 2009 book "made no musical sense" in any other known temperament but equal!
• CPE Bach, D-flat major going to G-flat minor(!) (excerpt from the Württemberg Sonata #2 in A-flat, 2nd movement, 1742) - from a 2005 harpsichord recital by Bradley Lehman at Bluffton University. Same composition as above, but on harpsichord.

  

• Informal video (on YouTube) of WTC book 1 Prelude in C, from January 2005
• Informal video (on YouTube) of a Buxtehude Sarabande, played first in A major and then in A-flat major
• See also the videos page and the audio streaming page!