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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685 – 1750)

Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books I and II, BWV 846-893 - Vladimir Feltsman, piano

Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books I and II, BWV 846-893 - Vladimir Feltsman, piano

Recorded at American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City, New York, USA, Book I (1992), Book II (1995)

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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 846: Prelude In C Major
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 850: Prelude In D Major
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 851 : Prelude In D Minor
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 852: Prelude In E-flat Major
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 852: Fugue In E-Flat Major
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 854: Prelude In E Major
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 855: Prelude In E Minor
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 855: Fugue In E Minor
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 856: Prelude In F Major
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 856: Fugue In F Major
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 857: Prelude In F Minor
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 857: Fugue In F Minor
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 858: Prelude In F-Sharp Major
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 858: Fugue In F-Sharp Major
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 859: Prelude In F-Sharp MInor
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 859: Fugue In F-Sharp Minor
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 860: Prelude In G Major
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 860: Fugue In G Major
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 861: Prelude In G MInor
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 861: Fugue In G Minor
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 862: Prelude In A-Flat Major
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 862: Fugue In A-Flat Major
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 863: Prelude In G-Sharp Minor
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 863: Fugue In G-Sharp Minor
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 864: Prelude In A Major
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 864: Fugue In A Major
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 865: Prelude In A Minor
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 866: Prelude In B-Flat Major
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 866: Fugue In B-Flat Major
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 867: Prelude In B-Flat Minor
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 867 Fugue No. 22 In B-flat MInor
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 868: Prelude In B Major
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 869: Prelude In B Minor
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, BWV 870: Prelude in C Major
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, BWV 870: Fugue In C Major
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feltsman bach WTC complete liner notes
H. L Mencken's voluminous journalism includes an occasional foray into music criticism. In 1912, writing in a magazine called The Smart Set, Mencken attempted to summarize the aesthetics of several composers in some tiny prose poems. Thus Beethoven became “The glory that was Greece ... the grandeur that was Rome ... a laugh." Chopin was represented by "Two embalmers at work upon a minor poet ... the scent of tubcroses ...Autumn rain" and Debussy by "A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown eye." Probably the best- and certainly the most elegant of these encapsulations was the one Mencken provided for Johann Sebastian Bach. "Genesis 1:1," he wrote, and let it stand. J.S. Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" is both a massive theoretical exercise and a deeply compelling work of art. It would be hard to imagine any music that has made more of an impression on succeeding generations of composers than "the 48," as the two books of 24 preludes and fugues in every major and minor key have long been abbreviated. Chopin is said to have begun each morning by playing through the score (and wrote his own album of 24 Preludes, the celebrated Opus 28). Composers such as Max Reger and Paul Hindemith built entire aesthetics on or around a conception of contrapuntal grandeur that can be traced back directly to the WTC while Dmitri Shostakovich fashioned his own distinctive set of Preludes as a modern-age answer to Chopin and Bach. More recently, we have had Wendy Carlos' "Switched on Bach," and the composer John La Montaine has even created his own electronic version of the complete “Well-Tempered Clavier.”
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Forthright and boldly projected, these readings are more incisive than poetic, emphasized by the rather steely recording of the piano.

Fanfare Magazine
11/29/2024
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