Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Trevor Pinnock
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Release: 2020
Size: 4.31 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
Prelude & Fugue In C Major, BWV 846
01. I. Prelude
02. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in C Minor, BWV 847
03. I. Prelude
04. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in C Sharp Major, BWV 848
05. I. Prelude
06. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in C Sharp Minor, BWV 849
07. I. Prelude
08. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in D Major, BWV 850
09. I. Prelude
10. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in D Minor, BWV 851
11. I. Prelude
12. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in E Flat Major, BWV 852
13. I. Prelude
14. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in E Flat Minor, BWV 853
15. I. Prelude
16. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in E Major, BWV 854
17. I. Prelude
18. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in E Minor, BWV 855
19. I. Prelude
20. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in F Major, BWV 856
21. I. Prelude
22. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in F Minor, BWV 857
23. I. Prelude
24. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in F Sharp Major, BWV 858
25. I. Prelude
26. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in F Sharp Minor, BWV 859
27. I. Prelude
28. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in G Major, BWV 860
29. I. Prelude
30. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in G Minor, BWV 861
31. I. Prelude
32. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in A Flat Major, BWV 862
33. I. Prelude
34. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in G Sharp Minor, BWV 863
35. I. Prelude
36. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in A Major, BWV 864
37. I. Prelude
38. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in A Minor, BWV 865
39. I. Prelude
40. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in B Flat Major, BWV 866
41. I. Prelude
42. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in B Flat Minor, BWV 867
43. I. Prelude
44. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in B Major, BWV 868
45. I. Prelude
46. II. Fugue
Prelude & Fugue in B Minor, BWV 869
47. I. Prelude
48. II. Fugue
Trevor Pinnock is a true pioneer of the early music movement As founder and former leader of The English Concert he enjoys a longstanding relationship with Archiv Produktion and Deutsche Grammophon Among his celebrated recordings are Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos Handel’s Messiah and Concerti Grossi Vivaldi’s Four Seasons The Harmonious Blacksmith Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Partitas Throughout his interpretations Pinnock remains true to his core principles favouring musicality and inspiration above musical orthodoxy Achieving an exceptional reputation as a conductor, chamber musician and harpsichordist he has received enthusiastic critical acclaim.
With his first recording of The Well Tempered Clavier (Book 1) Pinnock explores the summit of Bach’s intellectual and contrapuntal mastery “My journey with the Well Tempered Clavier has been life long. I first encountered it at about 12 years old when someone gave me a pink and gold bound volume, the old Czerny edition, which we now know to be notoriously unreliable. This gave me hours of discovery. A few years later, I heard all the preludes and fugues played on the piano on the radio, and I was hooked. In my twenties I myself recorded some preludes and fugues for radio broadcast, and I knew then that one day I would play them all. The mountain seemed insurmountable, however, and Bach a formidable and severe task master how could I possibly delve into the density of some of those fugues, let alone understand them?
So, although I subsequently performed various others of the preludes and fugues, any plan to record all of them was repeatedly postponed by increments of ten years until quite recently, when I decided I could put it off no longer. Now they will be a central part of me for the rest of my life.”