I strongly recommend downloading the Santino Garsi da Parma recordings: they well show Gerwig's immaculate phrasing in this repertoire.
MH --- On Sun, 15/3/09, Peter Jones <[email protected]> wrote: From: Peter Jones <[email protected]> Subject: [LUTE] Download Gerwig Recordings To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, 15 March, 2009, 4:28 PM 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: [1]http://www.mediafire.com/?cq4qykxebtm Hinterleitner Partita.rar: [2]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 [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.mediafire.com/?cq4qykxebtm 2. http://www.mediafire.com/?y3ywnrjwn3d 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
