Recordings in Historical Temperaments
I haven’t heard the following recordings, which are said (by Kyle Gann, whose informative web site is https://home.earthlink.net/~kgann/histune.html#hist6) to be in various historical tunings. Gann lists one other recording that I haven’t been able track down on the Internet yet.
Edition Bachakademie Vol 116 - Well-Tempered Clavier Book I
Release Date: 07/25/2000
Label: Hänssler Classic
Catalog: 9211
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Robert Levin Edition
Bachakademie Vol 117 - Well-Tempered Clavier Book II
Release Date: 07/25/2000
Label: Hänssler Classic
Catalog: 92117
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Robert Levin
Available at www.arkivmusic.com. At the home page when it prompts you to “find by catalog number,” type in 92116 and, separately, 92117.
Six degrees of tonality: A well-tempered piano by Domenico Scarlatti,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn (Audio CD)
Composer: Domenico Scarlatti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, et al.
Performer: Enid Katahn
Label: Gasparo Records - #344
Audio CD (April 24, 2001)
ASIN: B00005B7GY
Available at Amazon.com.
If you go to https://www.youtube.com and search for “well temperament,” you should find a number of audio examples. Some good ones are:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8M-JzIwbog. Note: Bradley Lehman, who produced this excellent video, claims to have discovered the actual tuning Bach had in mind for his The Well Tempered Clavier. I believe him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsKpxZIhc4U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvdunj6b8ds&list=pla19c999cd14d8469 Also, the comments posted are noteworthy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw0gxkymehg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BrcWplvGJY&list=RD5BrcWplvGJY&start_radio=1 “Grigory Sokolov, rehearsing in TŸbingen, February 2011, J.S. Bach, Italienisches Konzert. PTG Convention 2011 - Stopper OnlyPure Tuning Class - Tuning the Stopper OnlyPure Temperament Aurally (Stopper-Stimmung).”