Hi Sterling, The quality is surprisingly good. After
listening to the Reusner and the Hinterleitner I would like to
hear more. Please do upload
the Mouton at least. I'm curious to hear what Gerwig does
with Mouton.
PS Had to download a more recent version of WinZip and found
that VLC was a good player.
Thanks
Damian
Please visit my web site at www.damianstrings.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "sterling price" <spiffys84...@yahoo.com>
To: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 9:56 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Download Gerwig Recordings
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 <dam...@teleport.com>
To: Peter Jones <pjones...@toucansurf.com>;
lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
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"
<pjones...@toucansurf.com>
To: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
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
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