Quasi-meantone harpsichord recordings

Hi tuners.

IIRC, the last time I've heard meantone or something similar on an acoustic instrument was quite long ago. Recently, I've met one of the harpsichord teachers at our school (I was lucky as I actually study composition, not harpsichord) and together we made a tuning which met partially my requirements and partially hers. After setting the tuning on one of the harpsichords in the classroom last week, I made a few recordings with it. It was an uneasy task for me because I'm primarily a piano player, not a harpsichordist, so the keys of the instrument felt very small to my hands and that's why I made a few mistakes there while playing. Trying to choose some recordings where there aren't too many of them, I think I'll finally pick up these two if you wish to have a listen:

Scarboro Fair: http://download.yousendit.com/0428BCE6360BC529

Allemande: http://download.yousendit.com/2FB43ACF62C0FC84

Enjoy.

Petr

These are lovely.

Oz.

On May 19, 2008, at 9:02 AM, Petr Pařízek wrote:

> Hi tuners.
>
> IIRC, the last time I've heard meantone or something similar on an
> acoustic
> instrument was quite long ago. Recently, I've met one of the
> harpsichord
> teachers at our school (I was lucky as I actually study composition,
> not
> harpsichord) and together we made a tuning which met partially my
> requirements and partially hers. After setting the tuning on one of
> the
> harpsichords in the classroom last week, I made a few recordings
> with it. It
> was an uneasy task for me because I'm primarily a piano player, not a
> harpsichordist, so the keys of the instrument felt very small to my
> hands
> and that's why I made a few mistakes there while playing. Trying to
> choose
> some recordings where there aren't too many of them, I think I'll
> finally
> pick up these two if you wish to have a listen:
>
> Scarboro Fair: http://download.yousendit.com/0428BCE6360BC529
>
> Allemande: http://download.yousendit.com/2FB43ACF62C0FC84
>
>
> Enjoy.
>
> Petr
>