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J S Bach - Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 | Harmonia Mundi HMU90743132

J S Bach - Well Tempered Clavier Book 1

Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HMU90743132

Barcode: 0093046743123

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 29th October 2007

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Contents

Artists

Richard Egarr (harpsichord)

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV846-869

Artists

Richard Egarr (harpsichord)

About

Taking a break from his conducting duties at the helm of the Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr returns to the solo harpsichord music of J. S. Bach with this first volume of the 48 preludes and fugues that make up the Well-Tempered Clavier. The work's ambitious design, which couples a prelude and a fugue in each of the major and minor tonalities, reveals Bach's highly personal genius for boundless invention within the framework of two fixed forms.

For this, his sixth harmonia mundi recording of the music of Bach, Richard Egarr employs a harpsichord by Joel Katzman modeled on a 1638 Ruckers original, re-voiced in quill and tuned according to a system which recent research suggests may have been Bach's own.

"Uninhibited virtuosity... This is playing of real stature. Richard Egarr is the doyen of English harpsichordists." Gramophone

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