A Bach prelude in three different temperaments.


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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:18 Quarter-comma meantone presentation
4:40 Rameau presentation
5:38 Well Tempered Clavier and circulating temperaments
6:48 Kirnberger III presentation
8:00 Why this prelude?
9:11 Concluding remarks
10:22 Performance in quarter-comma meantone
12:36 Performance in Rameau
14:45 Performance in Kirnberger III

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude in C major, BWV 846 (from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I).
Performed in three different temperaments:
I. Quarter-comma meantone
II. Rameau
III. Kirnberger III

John Moraitis, spinet.
Spinet: Neupert “Zenti” (Bamberg, 2008). A=415 Hz.

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