The preludes and fugues that make up Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” operate on multiple levels at once — they’re a compilation of techniques for keyboard writing, a polemic on the subject of tuning ...

Whereas the Decca Book 2 E major Prelude gradually slows down under its suave surface, the leaner remake maintains tempo, complemented by an equally fluid yet more austere Fugue. By contrast, the ...

Keith Jarrett and Johann Sebastian Bach go back a long way. Between 1722 and 1742, Bach composed two sets of preludes and fugues in all twenty-four major and minor keys, written for keyboard; the ...

Not only across the whole span of the 24 keys, from C major to B minor, but even within the four or five minutes of a single prelude-fugue couple, Bach can take you from the solemn polyphony of a ...

Ars Lyrica Artistic Director Matthew Dirst continues his survey of Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier with two performances of excerpts from Book 1 in the sumptuous surroundings of Rienzi, the house ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

Pianist Rosalyn Tureck plays the opening Prelude and Fugue from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1.

The recorded repertory of the prolific German harpsichordist and pianist Andreas Staier spans the Baroque through Brahms. His Book 2 of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier was released in November 2021. For ...

The two volumes of Bach’s The Well-Temperd Clavier together represent one of Western music’s greatest achievements. Once described as the ‘Old Testament’ of the keyboard repertoire, these two ...