Dietrich Buxtehude: suite in C-Major played on clavichord

Last year I played this suite on harpsichord (removed it again) and I was wondering how it would sound on clavichord. The clavichord was a very important and popular instrument in the northern countries, especially in Germany.
better quality: http://www.vimeo.com/1356647

The Suite in C-Major which is presented here, is part of a collection in a book by the Danish family Ryge (19 suites). Johan Christian Ryge (1688-1758) was choirmaster at the cathedral of Roskilde.
The Works are written in German organtablature in this book. Also Works by Pachelbel and Reinken are in the collection of the Ryge-family book. I play from an edition by Emilius Bangert, who was in 1941 choirmaster at the Roskilde cathedral..
Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637 -- 9 May 1707) was a German-Danish organist and lutenist, was a highly regarded composer of the Baroque period.
Probably born in a place now belonging to Sweden, but then to Denmark.
From 1668 he was an organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck. He was a model for the careers of later Baroque masters such as George Frideric Handel, Johann Mattheson, Georg Philipp Telemann and Johann Sebastian Bach. He offered his position in Lübeck to Handel and Mattheson but stipulated that the organist who ascended to it must marry his eldest daughter, Anna Margareta. Both Handel and Mattheson turned the offer down and left the day after their arrival. In 1705, J.S. Bach, then a young man twenty years old, walked from Arnstadt to Lübeck, a distance of more than 400 kilometers, and stayed nearly three months to hear the Abendmusik, meet the pre-eminent Lübeck organist, hear him play, and as Bach explained "to comprehend one thing and another about his art.


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[cber2360]

That is a very free sounding clavichord, a nicer sound than most I have played, although it's of course hard to tell from an online recording. Do you find you have to be extremely careful to make the notes speak? I ask because it's so wonderfully played that I imagine this is an easier clavichord to play than some.

[ernststolz]

well clavichord playing is for most starters not easy. I am used to it, so. However care still is being asked for the top octave

[IIIVVVXXX]

Very Beautiful!!! :D

[ernststolz]

Thanks for your comments!

[bifeldman]

Delightful clavichord and you have fine rapport with it.

[ernststolz]

thanks a lot

[harpsinth]

Nice playing and nice instrument...it sounds so warm ! I wander if you can tell us or not what brand is this... so please tell what temperament was used ...(meantone ?).

Thank you very much for share !

[ernststolz]

Dick Verwolf . nl

[bifeldman]

Is this a Martin Kather instrument?

[bifeldman]

Very sweet clavichord. What is it?