Daniel Barenboim Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier

Warner Classics

£13.50

Format: 5CD
ICPN: 0190295105389
Release Date: 19th March 2021
Genre: Classical

Packaging: Clamshell 5CD. Liner notes in EN, DE & FR. Wallet covers based on original jackets

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 1685-1750
The Well-Tempered Clavier
Das Wohltemperierte Klavier · Le Clavier bien tempéré

CD 1 Book I - Preludes & Fugues Nos. 1-12, BWV 846-857
CD 2 Book I - Preludes & Fugues Nos. 13-24, BWV 858-869
CD 3 Book II - Preludes & Fugues Nos. 1-8, BWV 870-877
CD 4 Book II - Preludes & Fugues Nos. 16-24, BWV 885-893
CD 5 Book II - Preludes & Fugues Nos. 16-24, BWV 885-893

Daniel Barenboim piano

STEREO · RECORDINGS FROM 2003-2004
“Das Wohltemperierte Klavier is not only the sum of everything that has preceded it, it also points the way ahead.” Daniel Barenboim sees Bach’s encyclopaedic collection of 48 preludes and fugues, with its dual traversal of all 24 keys, as a work of pivotal importance and epic stature. His interpretation elicited a rapturous response from Gramophone magazine: “There is no sense of received wisdom, only a vital act of recreation that captures Bach's masterpiece in all its first glory and magnitude; no simple-minded notions of period style or strict parameters but a moving sense of music of a timeless veracity.”