Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Luca Guglielmi
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Avi Music
Catalogue: AVI8553232
Release: 2021
Size: 2.47 GB
Recovery: +3%
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 846-869
CD 01
01. Prelude in C Major, BWV 846
02. Fugue in C Major, BWV 846
03. Prelude in C Minor, BWV 847
04. Fugue in C Minor, BWV 847
05. Prelude in C sharp Major, BWV 848
06. Fugue in C-Sharp Major, BWV 848
07. Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, BWV 849
08. Fugue in C-Sharp Minor, BWV 849
09. Prelude in D Major, BWV 850
10. Fugue in D Major, BWV 850
11. Prelude in D Minor, BWV 851
12. Fugue in D Minor, BWV 851
13. Prelude in E-Flat Major, BWV 852
14. Fugue in E-Flat Major, BWV 852
15. Prelude in E-Flat Minor, BWV 853
16. Fugue in E-Flat Minor, BWV 853
17. Prelude in E Major, BWV 854
18. Fugue in E Major, BWV 854
19. Prelude in E Minor, BWV 855
20. Fugue in E Minor, BWV 855
21. Prelude in F Major, BWV 856
22. Fugue in F Major, BWV 856
23. Prelude in F Minor, BWV 857
24. Fugue in F Minor, BWV 857
CD 02
01. Prelude in F-Sharp Major, BWV 858
02. Fugue in F-Sharp Major, BWV 858
03. Prelude in F-Sharp Minor, BWV 859
04. Fugue in F-Sharp Minor, BWV 859
05. Prelude in G Major, BWV 860
06. Fugue in G Major, BWV 860
07. Prelude in G Minor, BWV 861
08. Fugue in G Minor, BWV 861
09. Prelude in A-Flat Major, BWV 862
10. Fuge in A-Flat Major, BWV 862
11. Prelude in G-Sharp Minor, BWV 863
12. Fugue in G-Sharp Minor, BWV 863
13. Prelude in A Major, BWV 864
14. Fugue in A Major, BWV 864
15. Prelude in A Minor, BWV 865
16. Fugue in A Minor, BWV 865
17. Prelude in B-Flat Major, BWV 866
18. Fugue in B-Flat Major, BWV 866
19. Prelude in B-Flat Minor, BWV 867
20. Fugue in B-Flat Minor, BWV 867
21. Prelude in B Major, BWV 868
22. Fugue in B Major, BWV 868
23. Prelude in B Minor, BWV 869
24. Fugue in B Minor, BWV 869
For nearly twenty years Luca has been the assistant and continuo player of Jordi Savall and his ensembles Hesperion XXI, Le Concert des Nations and La Capella Reial de Catalunya, giving concerts, from the duo to the large ensemble, all over the world. Concurrently, from 1993 Luca Guglielmi has had a busy international career as a soloist of historical keyboards (harpsichord, organ, clavichord, fortepiano), choir master and leader of various ensembles “with original instruments”. This recording has been made by one the three remaining original harpsichords of the Hamburg harpsichord maker Christian Zell (1732), which shows the Bach WTC in a very special sound. The 1737 harpsichord was a favourite of Gustav Leonhardt to whose memory this volume is dedicated.
Luca Guglielmi: Bach himself did not see the autograph manuscript as a ‘definitive’ version. He kept it as an ‘open manuscript’ on the rack of his harpsichord up to his death, using it as a ‘textbook’ for the lessons he gave to his students, never ceasing to insert a series of corrections, reworkings, improvements, small variants and even performance instructions. Bach’s hands-on approach to his work in progress proves just how modern he actually was and remains. Through a truly ‘holistic vision’ we can embrace artistic parameters inherited from our 18th-century forebears: a profound, venerable legacy that remains unknown to the ones who approach the musical art on ‘scientific’ methods based on calculation and measurement.