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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.

Recorded samples

A Joy Forever - cover art Playing from Bach's fancy - cover art 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.

In Thee is Gladness - cover art 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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  • A direct comparison of equal temperament and the Bach temperament is available as a set of two video demonstrations on YouTube.

    The Taylor & Boody Opus 41 organ (played in LaripS 1002) is part of the Goshen College Music Center, Goshen Indiana.

    Some of my musical priorities and principles are described at my older essays "Decoro, sprezzatura, grazia" and "What does a musical performer think about?".


    Six other samples drawn from LaripS 1002 and 1003 are hosted at Oxford University Press's web site, as listening examples for the article "Bach's extraordinary temperament: our Rosetta Stone". See the outline page for details and that link.


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