Dear Peter, Thank you so much for providing this. I really like his playing, and even more, considering how Gerwig was a 20th century pioneer of the lute.
ed At 04:28 PM 3/15/2009 +0000, Peter Jones wrote: >Hello All, > >A colleague at work (BBC Radio 3) is writing a doctoral thesis on >historical historical recordings, as it were - old recordings of early >music. He has an excellent collection of records, which he is in the >process of digitizing. > >He's made some excellent transfers of a number of recordings which may be >of interest to us lutenists. They are out of copyright (at least, they >are here in the UK - I think the situation is different in the USA, so do >be careful that you are not breaking any local laws if you choose to >download them). The files are FLAC lossless audio - not compressed in the >way that mp3s are, but a completely faithful reproduction of the sound >from the vinyl. There are lots of shareware players out there that can >cope with FLAC files - Audacity, Winamp and VLC being three... > >Walter Gerwig was, in my opinion, a very fine player - despite the dated >technique he gets a nice sound from his instrument. Very musical, if >favouring speeds which to me seem a little on the slow side, here he is >well-recorded and my friend Nick has cleaned up and de-clicked the >transfers with a light touch. > >So here we have Archiv EPA 37078, with a couple of relative rarities: > >Reusner Suite: >http://www.mediafire.com/?cq4qykxebtm > >Hinterleitner Partita.rar: >http://www.mediafire.com/?y3ywnrjwn3d > >If these prove to be of interest, I can also upload: > >Archiv 13027a - Works by Mouton >Archiv AP 13022 - Bach suite BWV 995 >Archiv AP 13031 - Works by Neusidler and Garsi da Parma > >I hope that these are of interest - Nick has put quite a bit of work into >these transfers and I'm sure that he would value any feedback or comments >- I'll pass on any that I receive. > >Also, if anyone can think of more old recordings of lute music, Nick would >be interested to hear about them, as they might fill gaps in his catalogue. > >Best wishes, > >Peter > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.13/2001 - Release Date: 03/14/09 >06:54:00 Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [email protected] voice: (218) 728-1202
