Sound Clips from Historical Keyboard Instruments
America’s Shrine to Music Museum, Vermillion, South DakotaThis page contains links to recordings of keyboard instruments at the National Music Museum (formerly America’s Shrine to Music Museum) on the campus of the University of South Dakota, Vermillion. From 1999 to 2001 I was a research associate of the university, and in this capacity I enjoyed facilitated access to the museum’s collections. I also gave a number of performances on museum instruments, including several collaborations with Mary Oleskiewicz, then assistant professor at the University of South Dakota and curator of instruments at the museum (now at the University of Massachusetts-Boston).
To give you an idea not only of what these instruments sound like alone, but also how they combine with other instruments, some clips are from chamber works for several instruments.
Most of these files are in MP3 format and be played with Windows Media Player, QuickTime, and other players.
Clavichord, Swedish, ca. 1770. Purchase funds gift of Burke-BankWest, Pierre, South Dakota, 1997 (no. 6105)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-88): Sonata in E minor (uncatalogued), second movement (Andante).
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-88): Sonata in C, W. 90/3 (H. 524), first movement (Allegro di molto).
Harpsichord by Jose Calisto, Portuguese, 1780. Marjorie T. Rawlins Collection (no. 6204). From a concert at America’s Shrine to Music Museum, Oct. 31, 1999, by Mary Oleskiewicz, baroque flute, and David Schulenberg, harpsichord, with Stephanie Vial, baroque cello
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 894, first movement (prelude)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Sonata in E minor for flute and basso continuo, BWV 1034, third movement (Andante)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Sonata in E minor for flute and basso continuo, BWV 1034, fourth movement (Allegro)
Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas (1704-42): Sonata (Kastner no. 57), first movement (Allegro)
Harpsichord by Jacques Germain, Paris, 1785. Marjorie T. Rawlins Collection, 1983 (no. 3327). From a concert at America’s Shrine to Music Museum, April 27, 2000, played by Mary Oleskiewicz, baroque flute, and David Schulenberg, harpsichord.
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713): Sonata III in D for transverse flute and continuo (anonymous French arrangement, ca. 1738, after op. 5, no. 3, in C, first movement (Adagio)
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713): Sonata III in D for transverse flute and continuo (anonymous French arrangement, ca. 1738, after op. 5, no. 3, in C, second movement (Allegro))
Octave virginal by Onofrio Guarracino, Naples, 1694. Purchase funds gift of Margaret Ann and Hubert H. Everist, Sioux City, Iowa, 1997 (no. 6041). From a concert at America’s Shrine to Music Museum, April 27, 2000, played by Mary Oleskiewicz, Renaissance flute, and David Schulenberg, virginal
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643): Canzona I La Bovisia (from Canzoni, Rome, 1628)
Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710): Suite II in D, first movement (Alemanda)
Harpsichord by Giacomo Ridolfi, Italian, ca. 1662-82. Purchase funds given by Margaret Ann and Hubert H. Everist, Sioux City, Iowa, 1989 (no. 46570). From a concert at America’s Shrine to Music Museum, April 27, 2000
Luigi Rossi (1598-1653): Passacaille
Michelangelo Rossi (ca. 1602-1656): Toccata I