Siegbert  Rampe’s recently finished two-volume edition takes us back to the early 17th century  to discover a wealth of valuable keyboard compositions.<br>
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The second volume, like the first, consists entirely of first publications, this time of pieces by Buttstedt , Erbach , Kindermann , Philips, Christoph Walter and others. With their remarkable contrapuntal intricacy and formal mastery, these pieces invite harpsichord  players and  organists to diversify their recitals. Sometimes the reader is offered a  glimpse of incalculable  educational value into previously unknown organ specifications. Our  scholarly-critical edition is  rigorously based on the surviving source material and contains a critical  report, a catalogue  of sources, and a detail preface with sections devoted to ornamentation,  editorial technique  and performance practice.<br>