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RE: B Foccoroulle Bach Complete Organ works

Posted by pbarach (A) on October 23, 2014 at 14:30:14

In Reply to: B Foccoroulle Bach Complete Organ works posted by Utley1 on October 23, 2014 at 07:43:29:

There are many, many Bach recordings on Baroque-era organs from Germany and the Netherlands. I have the Koopman complete Teldec set (which was quite inexpensive) and really like it--great playing, decent sound. I think a key issue is what tuning is used for the instrument(s)--not just pitch (A=440 or something lower?), but the intervals between the notes (temperament).

I'm not a musicologist, and I can't attest to the scholarship in this post, but here is one discussion of this complex issue:
http://www.albany.edu/piporg-l/meantone.html

BTW, the Koopman set uses modern temperament. I don't have perfect pitch, so I don't know whether the overall pitch is A=440 or A=something else.

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