Brilliant Classics complete Couperin dynasty

[domenico.statuto]

@CDV

I am supposed to know, perhaps just by “earsight”, the name of most professional harpsichordists in Italy. Never heard about Massimo Berghella.
No CV or bio of him online.
He appears to be active in the Southern Adriatic coast of Italy.
There is a favourable review of another record of him in Grammophone.

Me too, never heard of him before seeing this LC recording. However, on the cd box you can read the recording has been done in Canepina, VIterbo, Italy. (picture in https://www.amazon.it/Complete-Harpsichord-Music/dp/B0C6FC1YN1)
Canepina is a very small village (“borgo” in Italian) of only 3 houses and a church, outside Viterbo, in Central Italy, so the recording can only have been done in the workshop of Andrea Di Maio, the harpsichord maker, who lives and works there in Canepina. I assume the harpsichord is a Di Maio, probably a Vaudry or a Thibaut.
Andrea is a very fine harpsichord maker, and probably an even finer painter who decorates his own harpsichords and lids. Website: https://www.andreadimaio.it/.

These are the only informations I can gather.

[domenico.statuto]

@domenico.statuto

the recording can only have been done in the workshop of Andrea Di Maio, the harpsichord maker, who lives and works there in Canepina. I assume the harpsichord is a Di Maio, probably a Vaudry or a Thibaut.

Exactly, it is a Di Maio Thibaut. Here is the leaflet of the CD: https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/07/000158370.pdf, where is stated:

Harpsichord built in 2018 by Andrea Di Maio, copy from Vincent Thibaut, 1681
Pitch 392 hz, Temperament Ordinaire

[mshields]

Actually, it is the playing in this edgy tuning (described as “ordinaire” temperament at 392) in the recording of the first piece that I find doesn’t work. In fact, maybe the player, too, is a bit unsettled by the tuning. But I haven’t listened to the whole recording.

[CDV (Claudio Di Veroli)]

I forgot that promise I made to Barbieri … I just deleted my last post. Michael, can we take that temperament discussion off the Jackrail? Please email me.