Sound Clips
Most of these sound clips are taken directly from actual performances and are unedited. All are in MP3 format. When you click on one of these links, your browser will either automatically load an MP3 player, which will begin playing the sound clip, or it will ask you where to save the file; after downloading it, you can listen to it with an appropriate player. MP3 files can be played by QuickTime, Windows Media Player, and other software.
For additional sound clips, please go to the Oleskiewicz-Schulenberg Duo home page. Click here for sound clips played on historical keyboard instruments at America's Shrine to Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-88)
For the following pieces, please go to the page for my concert of Oct. 24, 2004, sponsored by the Boston Clavichord Society:
--the "Hamlet" Fantasia (W. 63/6/3), which I edited in volume I/3 of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works (Packard Humanities Institute, 2006)
--Fantasia in C, W. 59/6
--Variations with varied reprises, W. 118/10
--Sonata in B-flat, W. 62/1
Two pieces from my edition Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Keyboard Sonatas 1744-1747 (Oxford University Press, 1995), played on the harpsichord:
--Sonata in C, W. 65/16, first movement (Allegro)
--Sonata in G minor, W. 65/17 (H. 47), first movement (Allegro)
Four examples played on the clavichord to illustrate my paper "When Did the Clavichord Become C. P. E. Bach's Favourite Instrument? Some Questions About Keyboard Practice in the Bach Circle," read at the Fourth International Clavichord Symposium at Magano, Italy in September 1999 and to be published in its Proceedings, played on an anonymous Swedish clavichord (ca. 1770) at America's Shrine to Music Museum (SMM 6105, purchase funds gift of Burke-Bankwest, Pierre, South Dakota, 1998, restored by Susanna Caldeira):
--1. Sonata in E minor (W. deest), second movement (Andante)
--2. Sonatina in G, W. 64/2 (H. 8), second movement (Largo)
--3. Sonata in B minor, W. 65/13 (H. 32.5), first movement (Poco allegro)
--4. Sonata in C, W. 90/3 (H. 524), first movement (Allegro di molto)
A fantasia in E-flat, composed in the 1740s but only recently identified as a work of C.P.E. Bach, performed on a copy by David Sutherland of a contemporary fortepiano by Gottfried Silbermann, from a concert at America's Shrine to Music Museum, May 6, 2000. The fantasia is performed without dampers, as Bach recommends in his Essay on the True Manner of Playing Keyboard Instruments; a special moderator is also applied, producing the effect of the Pantalon, an early-eighteenth-century instrument resembling a large hammered dulcimer. For a larger file containing the complete work, click here.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Praeludium and Fugue in A minor, BWV 894, first movement, played on a Portuguese harpsichord (1767) by Jose Calisto at America's Shrine to Music Museum (Rawlins Collection)
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903: (1) Fantasia; (2) Fugue
The Ricercar a 3 from the Musical Offering, played on the Silbermann fortepiano described above, but without the moderator
François Couperin (1668-1733)
Offertoire from Messe pour les paroisses (organ)
Elizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729)
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Musical examples for my article "Some Problems of Text, Attribution, and Performance in Early Italian Baroque Keyboard Music," in the online Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-67)
Suite XIII in E minor: Sarabande
Betsy Jolas (b. 1926)
Luigi Rossi (1598-1653)
Michelangelo Rossi (ca. 1602-1656)
Toccata I [in C] (from Toccate, Rome, by 1634?)
Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710)
Ercole Pasquini (fl. ca. 1600)
Musical examples for my article "Some Problems of Text, Attribution, and Performance in Early Italian Baroque Keyboard Music," in the online Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas (1704-42)
Sonata in A major (Kastner no. 57): first movement, Allegro
My own compositions
