| Contents |
CD contents: Two-part invention no. 8 in F major, BWV 779 (Wolfgang Rübsam, piano) -- Sinfonia in F minor [Three-part invention], BWV 795 (Wolfgang Rübsam, piano) -- French suite no. 5 in G major, BWV 816 : Loure (Wolfgang Rübsam, piano) -- English suite no. 6 in D minor, BWV 811 : Gavotte I and II (Wolfgang Rübsam, piano) -- The well-tempered clavier, book I : Prelude and fugue no. 2 in C minor, BWV 847 (Luc Beauséjour, harpsichord) -- The well-tempered clavier, book II : Prelude and fugue no. 11 in F major, BWV 880 (Jenö Jandö, piano) -- Partita no. 4 in D major, BWV 818 : Overture and Gigue (Wolfgang Rübsam, piano) -- Italian concerto, BWV 971 (János Sebestyén, piano) -- Goldberg variations, BWV 988 : Aria, Variation 20, Variation 21, Variation 22 (Jenö Jandö, piano) -- Passacaglia and fugue in C minor, BWV 582 (Wolfgang Rübsam, organ). |
| Abstract |
Along with Beethoven's sonatas and the purely idiomatic works for piano of Chopin and Debussy, the solo keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach represents the heart of the pianist's repertory; in the more specialized field of music for the organ, Bach's primacy seems beyond challenge. This listener's guide to Bach's music for the keyboard provides the interested amateur with a close but non-technical look at these two crucial parts of the master's oeuvre. The composer's tendency to work exhaustively in tightly structured formats--such as the 48 preludes and fugues of The Well-Tempered Clavier--provides a natural framework for this study; but the power, beauty, high polish, and occasionally the sheer strangeness of Bach's imagination are carefully examined as well. |
