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Buxtehude and Bohm: temperament examples (part 2)
Buxtehude and Bohm: temperament examples (part 1)
F sharp and G flat are not the same note - Bradley Lehman
Bach: WTC book 1, 24 scales - chromatic sequence
Bach: WTC book 1, 24 scales - circle-of-fifths sequence
Bach: Sinfonias in D minor and E minor - 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
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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.
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thebpl uploaded a new video (1 month ago)
Sonata published 1742. Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788).

Movements 1-2, recorded during a church service on 25 October 2009. Bradle...   more
 
 
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Johann Sebastian Bach: Italian Concerto, mvt 1 (mvts 2-3 also available)

Bradley Lehman, harpsichord
Live performance, Shenandoah Valley Bach Festiva...   more
 
 
thebpl uploaded a new video (1 month ago)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Italian Concerto, mvt 2-3 (mvt 1 also available)

Bradley Lehman, harpsichord
Live performance, Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival...   more
 
Channel Comments (8)
saliere3mozart (3 weeks ago)
Amazing performances
pcma1970 (3 weeks ago)
Great Channel Great music
robustiousperiwig (1 month ago)
Greetings Brad! Glad to find your wonderful channel. -Joel
thebpl (2 years 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 (2 years 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 (2 years ago)
You are amazing. I wish more people would do what you are doing.
thebpl (2 years 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 (2 years 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".