Hi all!
Gerwig used a 10 course lute in ren tuning for everything he did. It
was made by a luthier called Hans Jordan from Markneukirchen Germany.
Bob Spencer and Michael Schaeffer also used lutes by him in their
early days. Daniel Benko also plays a modified lute by this maker.
They were rather heavy instruments but well made. In fact in the
fifties and early sixties they were the best lutes money could buy.
Cheers!
Lex van Sante
Op 16 mrt 2009, om 05:56 heeft sterling price het volgende geschreven:
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]
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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
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