Hi-Can anyone comment on the type of lutes Gerwig used? I seem to remember hearing that he used some kind of 10 course in ren tuning even for the baroque music. Sterling
----- Original Message ---- From: damian dlugolecki <[email protected]> To: Peter Jones <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 3:56:25 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Download Gerwig Recordings Did he make an effort to find the original tapes? That would of course be the ideal. I think a very worthwhile project. He was a wonderful player, and it's worth noting that these recordings were made with gut strings at least for the on board strings. Damian Please visit my web site at www.damianstrings.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Jones" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 9:28 AM Subject: [LUTE] Download Gerwig Recordings > 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 >
