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Bradley Lehman
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Harpsichordist, organist, researcher.

Home page:
http://www-personal.umich.e...

Published recordings and research, especially about historical tuning for keyboard instruments:
http://www.larips.com
Bradley Lehman, harpsichordist and organist based in northwestern Virginia. Solo and chamber music, centered on the 17th and early 18th centuries.

Classically trained: doctorate in harpsichord, University of Michigan, after undergraduate degree at Goshen College. Additional areas of academic study were musicology, church music, organ, fortepiano, and mathematics.

Especially interested in historical methods of tuning harpsichords by ear.

In professional performance duos with Martin Hodel (trumpet) and David Sariti (Baroque violin); also available for freelance work.

Record Label: LaripS
Label Type: Independent
Band Members: Bradley Lehman
City: Dayton, Virginia
Country: United States
Albums:
Website URL: http://www.larips.com
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JS Bach's six-voiced Ricercar from the Musical Offering
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November 23, 2005 -- informal practice session by Bradley Lehman with a play-throu...
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Bach: O Mensch, bewein' dein Suende gross - Bradley Lehman
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AUDIO ONLY. Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale prelude "O Mensch, bewein' dein Suend...
2 years ago 16,328 views thebpl
Lehman: Throned Upon the Awful Tree - flugelhorn and organ
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AUDIO ONLY. Fluegelhorn and organ performance of "Throned Upon the Awful Tree" - a...
2 years ago 2,058 views thebpl
Bach vs Equal Temperament, part 1 -- Bradley Lehman
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PART 1 OF 2. Five preludes from book 1 of Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" are perf...
1 year ago 7,555 views thebpl
Bach: Prelude in C, on Harpsichord -- Bradley Lehman
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Informal rehearsal at home January 2005, demonstrating the tuning from Lehman's re...
2 years ago 81,193 views thebpl
Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (+ a Sinfonia) - Bradley Lehman
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Harpsichord performances of several short compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach: F...
1 year ago 4,115 views thebpl
Bach: Endlessly Rising Modulation Canon - Bradley Lehman
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AUDIO ONLY. Harpsichord solo performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's Modulation Can...
2 years ago 7,018 views thebpl
Harpsichord tuning: late 17th century "Ordinaire" style
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Harpsichord tuning demonstration: in late 17th century style, useful into the earl...
1 year ago 3,559 views thebpl
Bach: WTC book 1, 24 scales - circle-of-fifths sequence
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Part 1 of 2. The contrasting 24 keys of Bach's "Well-tempered clavier", played in...
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Channel Comments (6)
fluffyheadbubbaboy (7 months ago)
dude, i am sorry but i have never even seen "Hockey Mama for Obama" before......... sorry for the confusion...
thebpl (1 year ago)
I've found some unused tapes of home practice sessions from the first half of 2005, and have edited those into three new videos. So now, the C major prelude *and* its fugue are available along with some things in other keys.

Sometime I'll sift through the organ practice sessions and see if anything useful is available there.
r0natello (1 year ago)
Amazing videos, Bradley! I tried your temperament via Tunelab 3.1 (can't tune aurally very well yet!) on my baby grand and it sounds great. Kudos to you for deciphering Bach's tuning instructions!
Cheers,
Ronnie
fandenskrigere (1 year ago)
You are amazing. I wish more people would do what you are doing.
thebpl (1 year ago)
The 17th century tuning demonstration is now available.

Another idea for a future production: since I have recorded the complete book of "Ariadne musica" by JKF Fischer, I might put together some examples with follow-along score from the facsimile edition. (E major, F minor, F major, F# minor?)

Bach's F major fugue subject from the Well-Tempered Clavier (book 1) has some obvious similarities with Fischer's here: melodic shape, meter, and of course the key. The even more obvious one that "everybody" points out is the E major fugue of Bach's book 2, with the same subject as Fischer's E major. There might be room in a 10-minute video for all four of Fischer's E major, F minor, F major, and F# minor, plus short bits of the Bach, since Fischer's preludes and fugues are only a minute or two each.
thebpl (1 year ago)
The two videos most likely to come in next, when I get time to work on them:

- Harpsichord tuning: 17th century style by ear (already filmed but not yet produced)...setting a tasteful meantone-style temperament from the reference F of an alto recorder (Blockflute)...and then altering it by raising the sharps and lowering the flats to make it more useful beyond key signatures of more than 2 sharps/flats.

- Bach's "Little Harmonic Labyrinth" with follow-along score...from the organ CD set "A Joy Forever".