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There are now two recordings of music from the Lublin tablatures. René Clemencic plays a reproduction of a south German upright harpsichord from the 15th century. It is full of character, the sound is colourful, intense and rich in partials. I can’t find any information about the instrument that Corina Marti is using, other than the description «Renaissance harpsichord.» It is not without a certain character either.
Marti plays the music with a sense of lyricism and movement forward to the end. It is most pleasant, light, sweet and easy on the ears.
Clemencic plays with a much greater sense of how the music’s life comes most of all from
ruptures in the singing line. He seems to me to make something almost baroque of this music, as if the Lublin manuscript contained music which is prescient of the style of some toccatas by Froberger or some late choral preludes by J S Bach.
