Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Benjamin Alard
Number of Discs: 3
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalogue: HMM90246668
Release: 2022
Size: 2.94 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
01. Præludium 1 in C Major, BWV 846a
02. Fugue in C Major, BWV 953
03. Applicatio in C Major, BWV 994
04. Præambulum 1 in C Major, BWV 924
05. Præludium in C Major, BWV 924a
06. Præludium in C Major, BWV 933
07. Præludium 12 in F Minor, BWV 857
08. Præludium 11 in F Major, BWV 856
09. Præambulum in F Major, BWV 927
10. Præludium in F Major, BWV 928
11. Præludium 6 in D Minor, BWV 851
12. Præludium in D Minor, BWV 935
13. “Jesu meine Freude” in D Minor, BWV 753 (Chorale prelude)
14. Præludium 2 in D Minor, BWV 926
15. Præludium & Fughetta in D Minor, BWV 899
16. Præludium & Fughetta in G Major, BWV 902a & BWV 902a/2
17. Præambulum in G Minor, BWV 930
18. Præludium 10 in E Minor, BWV 855a
19. Fuga in E Minor, BWV 855a/2
20. Præludium in E Minor, BWV 938
21. Præludium in E Minor, BWV 932: I. Allegro
22. Præludium in E Major, BWV 937: II. Adagio
23. Præludium 9 in E Major, BWV 854: III. Allegro
24. Præludium 4 in C sharp Minor, BWV 849
25. Præludium 3 in C sharp Major, BWV 848
26. “Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten” in A Minor, BWV 691 (Chorale prelude)
27. Præludium 4 in D Major, BWV 850
28. Praeludium in D Major, BWV 925
29. Præludium in D Major, BWV 936
30. Allemande* in G Minor, BWV 836
31. Præludium 8 in E-Flat Minor, BWV 853
32. Præludium 2 in C Minor, BWV 847a
33. Præludium in C Minor, BWV 934
CD 02
01. Præludium & Fuga in C Major, BWV 846
02. Præludium & Fuga XI in F Major, BWV 856
03. Præludium & Fuga VI in D Minor, BWV 851
04. Præludium & Fuga XV in G Major, BWV 860
05. Præludium & Fuga X in E Minor, BWV 855
06. Præludium & Fuga XIX in A Major, BWV 864
07. Præludium & Fuga XIV in F-Sharp Minor, BWV 859
08. Præludium & Fuga XXIII in B Major, BWV 868
09. Præludium & Fuga XVIII in G-Sharp Minor, BWV 863
10. Præludium & Fuga III in C-Sharp Major, BWV 848
11. Præludium & Fuga XXII in B-Flat Minor, BWV 867
12. Præludium & Fuga VII in E-Flat Major, BWV 852
CD 03
01. Præludium & Fuga XX in A Minor, BWV 865
02. Præludium & Fuga V in D Major, BWV 850
03. Præludium & Fuga XXIV in B Minor, BWV 869
04. Præludium & Fuga IX in E Major, BWV 854
05. Præludium & Fuga IV in C-Sharp Minor, BWV 849
06. Præludium & Fuga XIII in F-Sharp Major, BWV 858
07. Præludium & Fuga VIII in D-Sharp Minor, BWV 853
08. Præludium & Fuga XVII in A-Flat Major, BWV 862
09. Præludium & Fuga XII in F Minor, BWV 857
10. Præludium & Fuga XXI in B-Flat Major, BWV 866
11. Præludium & Fuga XVI in G Minor, BWV 861
12. Præludium & Fuga II in C Minor, BWV 847
After five volumes devoted to the early years of JS Bach, up to the Weimar period, Benjamin Alard takes an utterly fascinating approach to the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier.
First, he offers the listener an astonishing mental preparation on the clavichord, derived mainly from the Clavier-Büchlein for Wilhelm Friedemann.
Then he arranges the preludes and fugues in a new order, and to play his programme he has chosen two instruments for which the word ‘extraordinary’ is not too strong: here is the moment when the glorious Hass family of instrument builders comes on the scene, in a festival of colours and registrations each more breath taking than the last.