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Sites that include information about Baroque-era instruments.
 Tononi Records - featuring Benedict Cruft - Sonatas & Partias for Solo Violinhttp://www.tononirecords.com/ Tononi Records is an independent Record Company which was formed in 2000. The first CD to be published is a 2CD album of J.S.Bach's Sonatas & Partias (sic, you will see why we have used Partia rather than Partita, if you visit the site) for solo violin played by Benedict Cruft. Cruft has been specialising in performing these six masterpieces as a set, over a pair of recitals since 1987 and recorded them in a six day period in the Autumn (fall) of 1998 in the glorious acoustics of the early Norman Binham Priory in Norfolk. Commercial Events Instruments Performers Recordings Works |
 Andrea Padova - Pianisthttp://utenti.tripod.it/andreapadova/ Andrea Padova first achieved critical attention when he won the "J.S.Bach" International Piano Competition in 1995 and since then has been widely considered "one of the most important contemporary interpreters of Bach on the Piano" (Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung). Audio Commercial Instruments Performers Personal Recordings Works |
 Ashmont Music - Patricia McCarty - J.S. Bach - Six Cello Suites performed on violahttp://www.ashmontmusic.com/ Ashmont Music is a small independent record label and distributor specializing in viola repertoire. Here you will find information about recordings currently available from us and be able to order them. Commercial Instruments Performers Personal Recordings Works |
 Bob Gallway - Partitas for Alto Saxophone and Keyboardhttp://www.bobbyalto.com/ Partitas for Keyboard with Alto Saxophone! Bob Gallway - Sax, John Sankey - Keyboard MIDI accompaniment. Audio Commercial Instruments Performers Personal Recordings Works |
 Bridge Records - Barbara Westphal - Cello Suites Performed on Violahttp://www.bridgerecords.com/ "German virtuoso Barbara Westphal's viola recording of Bach's 6 cello suites sheds new light on these great masterpieces. Westphal's viola playing features flawless intonation and gorgeous viola tone from her 1570 Da Salo instrument." Audio Commercial Instruments Performers Recordings Works |
 BACH.Bogen, Curved Bows for String Instruments, Rundbögen für Streichinstrumentehttp://pro.wanadoo.fr/bach.bogen/ The BACH.Bogen enables the string player to play on one, two, three and four strings simultaneously and to change flexibly between these combinations. Its high arch allows polyphonous playing and a lever mechanism effects the tension and release of the bow's hairs. Analysis Commercial Educational Images Instruments Performers Recordings |
 Abram Bezuijen - concert organist ( The Goldberg Variations for Organ )http://home.sol.no/~bezuijen/ "Abram Bezuijen (1966) studied organ at the Rotterdam Conservatory with Arie J. Keijzer, and piano with Frans van Hoek. In 1990 he earned the diploma for Music Pedagogy and in 1991 that for Performing Musician (organ). ... Abram Bezuijen plays concerts in Norway, the Netherlands and Germany and has made various CD and radio recordings." Audio Commercial Instruments Performers Personal Recordings Works |
 Lyrichord Discs - Early Music Winghttp://www.lyrichord.com/early/ "... here is a recorded series that will present all the major keyboard works of J.S. Bach in virtuosic performances on the clavichord, using superb reproductions by Ronald Haas of period instruments. The player is Richard Troeger, noted clavichordist, harpsichordist, and fortepianist. Vol. 1 of the series, just released, is a 2-CD set ( priced as a single CD! ) presenting the 6 Partitas in their clavichord debut, revealing new clarity, brilliance, nuances, and colors. Richard Troeger is a keyboard master whose Bach interpretations are among the finest ever recorded." - Ordering information is available at the Lyrichord web site. Commercial Instruments Performers Personal Recordings Works |
 Tjako van Schie's Home Page / The Goldberg Variationshttp://users.castel.nl/~schic02/ Tjako van Schie is a talented pianist from the Netherlands. He has recorded a well-played and tastefully interpreted CD of the Goldberg Variations on the Piano which is currently available at http://www.cddiscovery.com. Audio Commercial Instruments Performers Personal Recordings Works |
 Scott Slapin - The Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin transcribed for Violahttp://www.scottslapin.com/ 'The Stewart Society for the Recorded Sound is pleased to announce the release of J. S. Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Violin (BWV 1001-1006) and the Unaccompanied Partita for Flute (BWV 1013) performed on the viola by Scott Slapin. This two-disc set is the first complete recording of these works on the viola and undoubtedly a milestone in the history of the viola as a solo instrument.' Audio Commercial Educational Instruments Performers Recordings Works |
 The Bach Cello Suites On Trumpet by David Cooperhttp://www.execpc.com/~bluemoun/jbach.html "I have also made every effort to maintain the integrity of the Bach Cello Suites when I recorded them on the trumpet. I have pursued a warmer, 'woodier' tone by recording fairly close-miked and with a softer, more relaxed volume. I also tried to model the trumpet sound after the cello with regard to articulation, phrasing, vibrato and ornamentation. " Also check out http://www.execpc.com/~bluemoun/jsbach.html at Blue Mounds Productions. Commercial Instruments Performers Recordings Scores Works |
 Bach - The Fencing Masterhttp://www.ponticello.com/bylsma/ The famous Dutch cellist Anner Bylsma has written the long expected book about the Bach Cello Suites. Now, it is published. Its title is "Bach, The Fencing Master or reading aloud from the first three cello suites". The books brings new life into the discussion about how to perform these suites. Whoever reads it gets really enthusiastic about it. Mr. Bylsma's knowledge, sense of humor and entirely new view on the suites are compelling. Analysis Audio Biography Commercial Educational Instruments Performers Recordings Scores Works |
 Ernesto Tamayo Plays Bachhttp://Ernesto.Tamayo.com/ "It is always a joy to hear familiar Bach works transcribed for guitar. These works for violin and flute are familiar to all of us. But Ernesto gives us much more, he puts a lot of himself into his interpretation. He is both technically skilled and exceptionally expressive." - Jan Hanford - the J.S. Bach Home Page Audio Commercial Events Instruments Performers Personal Recordings Works |
 Annette Bartholdyhttp://www.access.ch/private-users/abartholdy/welcome.html A talented young Violist whose playing is as beautiful as she is. :-) Check out her CD of Bach's 2nd Suite for Solo Cello played on the Viola! It also includes the Arpeggione Sonata by Franz Schubert and the Cadenza for Solo Viola by Krzystof Penderecki. Instruments Performers Personal Recordings |
 Linn Recordshttp://www.linn.co.uk/lr/lr_main.html Featuring Nigel North's Bach on the Lute series of Solo Violin and Solo Cello transcriptions. - 'Linn Records represents some of the most prestigious artists in the music world. Our catalogue covers a wide repertoire, from early music through to rock 'n' roll. The superb performances captured on the Linn label have won worldwide critical acclaim for artistic merit and recording quality.' Commercial Instruments Performers Recordings Works |
 Raven Compact Discshttp://www.tneorg.com/raven/ New J. S. Bach - Only Recording of Unpublished Organ Works 'The first and only recording of 21 organ chorales very likely to be by J. S. Bach, including his only work for trumpet and organ, contained in the BWV since 1950 (and in Appendix II since 1990) yet to be published for the first time in late 1998 or early 1999 by Breitkopf in an edition by Stephen Rapp, the organist on this CD, and Douglas Myers, the Trumpeter. 1995 Richards, Fowkes & Co. organ, St. John's Lutheran Church, Stamford, Connecticut.' Commercial Instruments Performers Recordings Works |
 Organ Music by Rafal Nowakhttp://www.organmusic-rafalnowak.inet.pl/ 'Baroque Masters' - description of the CD recorded by Rafal Nowak - including mostly J.S.Bach and also N. Bruhns. Audio Commercial Instruments Performers Recordings |
 Jozsef Eötvös - Bach's Goldberg Variations Played on the Guitarhttp://www.spinnst.co.at/Gitarre/Eoetvoes/index.html 'Joszef Eötvös may have produced one of the finest major transcription for the guitar of the second half of the century. His variations are well crafted for a solo guitar, and stands up well against the original Bach manuscript. One cannot help feeling that the result is another faithful work of art, something that would have left a smile on Bach's face!' - Michael Stitt - Bach Plucked Audio Biography Commercial Instruments Performers Recordings Works |
 Calcante Recordings, Ltdhttp://www.calcante.com/ '... it is the mission of Calcante Recordings, Ltd. to record in the digital domain as many significant organs and gifted young organists hitherto relatively unrecorded.' Commercial Instruments Performers Recordings |
 Michael J. Miles and the Magic Banjo - American Bachhttp://homepage.interaccess.com/~banjo/banjo.html 'Michael J. Miles was voted by Banjo Newsletter Readers as one of the "top ten clawhammer banjo players in America." ... His new recording American BACH, featuring Miles transcriptions for banjo of JS Bach's cello suites and his own composition, Suite for the Americas, was released in September, 1997.' Commercial Educational Events Instruments Performers Personal Recordings Scores Works |
 Kevin Ferguson/Strad to Strat - Bach & Paganini on the Electric Guitarhttp://www.debone.com/strdstrt.html 'This is the latest CD by electric guitarist, Kevin Ferguson and has been in the Top Selling List of Locals Only Records since it was released.' Audio Commercial Instruments Links Performers Personal Recordings Scores Works |
 Bach Plucked - Bach on the Lute & Guitarhttp://www.ozemail.com.au/~bachlogc/plucked.htm 'This site is devoted to the playing of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries including S L Weiss played on the lute and guitar.' Educational Instruments MIDI Personal Scores Works |
 ORPHEON - Museum of Historical Musical Instrumentshttp://www.orpheon.org/ 'This museum offers visitors the unique opportunity to experience visually and acoustically some very fine instruments from the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical Periods. The displays will subserve primarily didactic purposes, at once embedding the instruments in the context of social history and the fine arts, as well as emphasizing the role these instruments can assume in the legitimate interpretation of music respecting its inherent aesthetic principles.' Educational Instruments Performers |
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Teri Noel Towe's Johann Sebastian Bach Pages http://www.rainbowflag.com/homepage/teritowe/jsbindex.html Portraits, Places Familiar to Sebastian Bach, Pipe Organs Played by Sebastian Bach, Rebuilding the Frauenkirche in Dresden, Sebastian Bach's Handwriting, Some Early Printed Editions, Recommended Recordings Bibliography Images Instruments Links Personal Recordings Scores Works John Sankey - Harpsichordist to the Internet http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/1714/ First-rate MIDI sequences of works by Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, and William Byrd. Analysis Instruments MIDI Performers Personal Works Famous Guitarmaker's Featured Artist - Kurt Rodarmer 'The Goldberg Variations' http://www.cybozone.com/fg/rodarmer.html Famous Guitarmaker's Featured Artist review of Kurt Rodarmer's amazing recording of the Goldberg Variations for Classical Guitar. Audio Instruments Performers Recordings Kurt Rodarmer - An Introduction http://www.cybozone.com/fg/rodarmer1.html 'Kurt Rodarmer is a consummate musician. His mastery of the guitar places him squarely in the category of world-class artists, and his prodigious talent has been recognized and lauded by the likes of Segovia, Joaquín Rodrigo, Carlos Vázquez, and John McLaughlin. Kurt has spent the last ten years in relative seclusion during the preparation and recording of The Goldberg Variations CD. His transcription preserves Bach's music in its original form and makes use of custom instruments capable of producing the extended range required by the work.' Instruments Performers Recordings The Baroque German Violin Bow- A Lost Art http://www.islandnet.com/~arton/barvlnbo.html 'Discover the difference between the Italian violin bow which we know today, and the German baroque bow which is never seen nor heard today, though popular in baroque Germany. The vital difference: the German bow can play chords - which makes Bach's pieces for solo violin infinitely more interesting, not to mention accurate!' Analysis Instruments The Lute-Harpsichord - A Forgotten Instrument http://www.islandnet.com/~arton/barluthp.html 'Learn about one of Bach's favorite keyboard instruments which is now almost impossible to hear on record. It's a truly wonderful instrument with a deep, rich and resonant sound. No wonder Bach had one custom-built to his own specifications.' Instruments Links The PIPE List http://www.intr.net/bleissa/lists/pipelist.html 'The "List" of Period Instrument Performance Ensembles.' Instruments Links Performers Les Idées heureuses http://www.mlink.net/~ideesheu/ Les Idées heureuses organized the Bach International Hapsichord Festival held in May 1997. The Festival was a one-time event that included ten concerts, five lectures and a harpsichord competition. Due to the enormous success of the harpsichord competition, however, that portion will become a regular event to be held every two years. The next one will take place in the spring of 1999.' Events Instruments Performers Organ Festival Holland http://www.dra.nl/~schnitge/ Events Instruments Performers Lara St. John's Home Page http://www.larastjohn.com Home page of the lovely Lara St. John who recorded a remarkable CD of the 2nd Partita and 3rd Sonata for Solo Violin. A great site with audio clips. Audio Commercial Events Images Instruments Performers Personal Recordings Works Baroque Week 1998 http://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/prlw/Winchester/baroque.html 'The highly successful Baroque Chamber Music Week, founded by Walter Bergmann, is now in its 21th season and takes place in the attractive surroundings of King Alfred's College, Winchester, England.' Events Instruments Performers Harpsichords and Related Topics http://uacsc2.albany.edu/~HPSCHD-L/ 'HPSCHD-L is an electronic mailing list devoted to early stringed keyboard instruments: harpsichords, clavichords, fortepianos, virginals, and all similar instruments except the modern piano. The list is an open forum for all topics related to these instruments, including their theory and principles of construction, decoration, and history and evolution from their earliest beginnings through modern times.' Instruments Newsgroups The Official Wendy Carlos Online Information Source! http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/wendy/ 'Wendy Carlos is one of the most important composers living today. While primarily connected to the field of electronic music, her compositions transcend the genre. It is certain that her music will be remembered as major milestones of 20th century music.' Instruments MIDI Performers Recordings Early Music FAQ http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/ 'This is the Frequently Asked Questions page for Early Music (Western music of the Medieval, Renaissance & Baroque eras). We attempt to cover all aspects in greater or lesser depth.' Bibliography Biography Events Instruments Links Newsgroups Performers Recordings Bach: A small contribution to his web presence http://mitglied.tripod.de/RobKruijt/bachjs/bachjs00.htm On this web-site, some less known illustrations of stations in the life and work of Sebastian Bach are provided. Biography Educational Images Instruments Personal rec.music.classical.guitar news:rec.music.classical.guitar Instruments Newsgroups rec.music.makers.bowed-strings news:rec.music.makers.bowed-strings Instruments Newsgroups Kevin Ferguson - Strad to Strat: Bach and Paganini on Electric Guitar http://www.debone.com/strdstrt.html Audio Commercial Instruments Links Performers Recordings Douglas Yeo FAQ: Bach Cello Suites http://www.yeodoug.com/bachsuites.html 'Sooner or later, every serious student of the trombone is going to work on the Cello Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach. While being profound music, they present unique challenges to the trombonist. I use the Suites with students beginning in their sophomore year, and am often asked by students and teachers alike about why I use them and how to begin approaching them with a player.' Instruments Personal Recordings Works Classical Midi Organ Stop! http://www.graeber.com 'The CMOS! contains a large collection of classical & religious sequences. The 'Pipe Organ' sequences were produced on a midi Reuter pipe organ. The CMOS! also contains many very fine Bach sequences.' Instruments Links MIDI GOTTFRIED SILBERMANN: Master Organ-Builder of the German Baroque http://www.islandnet.com/~arton/silbeng.html 'JS Bach's close friend and contemporary. Pictures, historical detail, locations of instruments; a visit to the Silbermann Museum in Schloss Frauenstein (Saxony); concerts and recitals on Silbermann organs; Silbermann Organ Festival; important addresses and accommodation contacts in the "Silbermann Territory" around Freiberg, Saxony. Instruments The Oboe and the Oboe D'amore in Bach's Church Cantatas http://idrs.colorado.edu/Publications/Journal/JNL6/bach.html THE OBOE AND THE OBOE D'AMORE IN BACH'S CHURCH CANTATAS: AN EXAMINATION OF BACH'S OBOISTS AS WELL AS RANGE AND NOTATIONAL PROBLEMS Analysis Bibliography Biography Educational Instruments Works the EarlyMusic-ian http://www.dioptra.com/earmus/index.html 'Welcome to the EarlyMusic-ian , homepage for Robert Hill. I am a keyboard player specializing in performance on historical keyboard instruments: harpsichord, fortepiano and clavichord. On this page you will find press information about me including a current biography and discography.' Audio Instruments Personal Recordings Bach's Method of Transcription by Philip Hii http://www.delmar.edu/music/bachtran.html 'Among the huge corpus of works by J.S. Bach is a sizeable number of transcriptions. A rather neglected part of the Bach repertory, these transcriptions have only recently gained more respectability and interest among scholars and performers. Their impact on the area of performance practice and the study of Bach's compositional process is evident in a number of notable studies.' Analysis Educational Instruments Performers Works Creative Concepts Publishing Corporation http://www.creativeconcepts.com/ Publishes Bach works for piano and arranged for classical guitar. Instruments Scores Guitar Gallery of Houston http://www.neosoft.com/~guitar/colectm.htm Sheet Music, Instructional Videos, CD's, & Hand-Made Acoustic Guitars Educational Instruments Recordings Scores Viola da Gamba Society of America http://www.enteract.com/~vdgsa/ 'The Viola da Gamba Society of America is a not-for-profit national organization dedicated to the support of activities relating to the viola da gamba in the United States and abroad. It is a society of players, builders, publishers, distributors, restorers and others sharing a serious interest in music for viols and other early bowed string instruments.' Instruments Claviers Baroques http://www.interlog.com/~hpschd/ 'We are builders of Historical Keyboard Instruments. We sell, service, repair, rent, restore, tune, transport and do consulting on: Harpsichords, Spinets, Virginals, Clavichords, Fortepianos, & Lautenwerke ' Instruments Harpsichord Information Center http://www.geocities.com/Paris/1685/ 'Glad you could make it! Let me take you on a personal tour of these extraordinary historical keyboard instruments!' Instruments The Music of Jeff Harrington http://www.parnasse.com/jeff.htm 'My music reflects my interest in music as an expression of drama and of dance. Tonal and intensely contrapuntal, it is inspired by New Orleans and classical music traditions.' Audio Instruments MIDI Performers Scores The Belgian Flute Pages http://www.ping.be/flute/ All sorts of great resources for the flute. Instruments MIDI ORPHEON - Sonatas for viola da gamba and obligato harpsichord http://www.orpheon.org/bach.htm Instruments Works Viola Da Gamba http://www.ping.at/members/huetmann/index.html Instruments Classical Guitar and Lute http://www.guitarandlute.com/ 'Your source of links to Great Music and Information for Guitar and Lute' Educational Instruments Links MIDI Scores Works The Viola da Gamba http://www.mcelhearn.com/vdg/vdg.html 'These pages are my contribution to the world of viol players and music. Together with Jonathan Dunford, a Real viol player, I have tried to organize some of the resources available both on and off the Internet.' Instruments Performers Recordings The Lute Page http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute/lute.html Images Instruments Scores The Lute Society of America Page! http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lsa/lsa.html Instruments 1st International Bach-Abel-Competition for Viola da gamba Köthen / Anhalt http://argus.hrz.fh-anhalt.de/region/koethen/veranstaltung/BACH-ABEL/ENGLISH/gambe00.htm Instruments Alex Jacobowitz - Xylophone http://www.xylophone.com/ '"... a splendid performer, who never allowed virtuosity to blanket the unique musical message.' Instruments Performers Recordings Bach Prelude #1 Arranged For Guitar http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/1153/hgtr1.htm 'Almost everyone knows the famous J. S. Bach Prelude #1 from The Well Tempered Clavier, book 1. Here is an arrangement I have made which follows the harmonic progressions of the prelude but is quite different melodically.' Instruments Scores |
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