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Great Pianists: Schnabel: Bach – Italian Concerto, Toccatas, Concerto for 2 Keyboards (FLAC)

Great Pianists: Schnabel: Bach - Italian Concerto, Toccatas, Concerto for 2 Keyboards (FLAC)
Great Pianists: Schnabel: Bach – Italian Concerto, Toccatas, Concerto for 2 Keyboards (FLAC)

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Artur Schnabel, Karl Ulrich Schnabel
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8111286
Release: 2008
Size: 167 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover

Italian Concerto, BWV971
01. I. (Allegro)
02. II. Andante
03. III. Presto

Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue in D minor, BWV903
04. Fantasia
05. Fugue

The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
06. Prelude
07. Fugue

Toccata in C minor, BWV911
08. Introduction – Adagio –
09. Fugue I –
10. Fugue II

Toccata in D major, BWV912
11. Introduction (Presto) – Allegro –
12. Adagio – (Fugato – Adagio) –
13. Fugue (Presto)

Concerto for Two Keyboards in C major, BWV1061
14. I. (Allegro)
15. II. Adagio
16. III. Fuga

This release contains all of Schnabel’s commercial disc recordings of the works of J. S. Bach, a composer whose keyboard music the pianist felt was too intimate for performance in the concert hall. One of Schnabel’s greatest talents was the ability to employ not only seemingly natural tempos but, more importantly, the perfect tempo relationship between sections and movements. The Prelude and Fugue from The Well-Tempered Clavier was the last recording Schnabel made before his death in 1951.

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