J.S. Bach - Triosonaten - Alessio Corti (2011) 

It's called a trio sonata because of the three voices. Not a a chamber music trio.

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Well considering there was no device in history until recently where we could accurately measure pitches (the hertz of sound waves), every village/town had their own tuning! I believe it was usually based off of the organ of the town, as this could not be easily changed. Overall, analyzing period instruments that have survived, such as organs and wind instruments, a lot of the tuning was lower in pitch, on average, than the standardized modern pitch ( A=440hz). This was especially true in France and the wind instruments from French builders. However, some areas had actually higher pitch than modern pitch, I believe more common in Italy. This would’ve also saved money on villages’ organs as the higher the pitch would’ve meant that the pipes would not need to be as large, so less material would be used. My point is essentially that there was no “one pitch” used throughout history until quite recently. The modern idea of a “baroque pitch” where A=415hz is actually not historically accurate, but it does allow for us in the modern day to collaborate with more people considering now we have transportation such as planes that can get us across the globe! Hope this helps and sorry if I repeated things you already knew!

I don't have perfect pitch, but I can offer further explanation: Some organ pipes have sleeves, or sliders to allow you to tune them and reeds are usually adjustable, however many older organs the only way of adjusting the tuning was to cut a bit off the end of the pipes that were low compared to the others! Over the years these pipes get a bit shorter and higher. The others are adjusted to keep in tune. So it is not unusual for older organs to be a semitone or two above modern concert pitch, which as you say is the opposite of what you would expect for a baroque instrument.

Good catch. It's funny that Ton Koopman's recording here on RU-vid is also a whole tone up from A=440. Actually Mr Corti is playing a bunch of cents below whole tone up in A=440. Koopman's recording sounds like played in A 440, only a whole tone up :)

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