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Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier [Box set]

~ J.S. Bach
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  • Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Audio CD (1 Feb 1992)
  • SPARS Code: ADD
  • Number of Discs: 4
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: RCA Gold Seal
  • ASIN: B000026OHN
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 38,668 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Disc: 1
1. Prelude & Fugue I BWV 846 In C Major
2. Prelude & Fugue II BWV 847 In C Minor
3. Prelude & Fugue III BWV 848 In C Sharp Major
4. Prelude & Fugue IV BWV 849 In C Sharp Minor
5. Prelude & Fugue V BWV 850 In D Major
See all 14 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Prelude & Fugue XV BWV 860 In G Major
2. Prelude & Fugue XVI BWV 861 In G Minor
3. Prelude & Fugue XVII BWV 862 In A Flat Major
4. Prelude & Fugue XVIII In G Sharp Minor
5. Prelude & Fugue XIX BWV In A Major
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Disc: 3
1. Prelude & Fugue I BWV 870 In C Major
2. Prelude & Fugue II BWV 871 In C Minor
3. Prelude & Fugue III BWV 872 In C Sharp Major
4. Prelude & Fugue IV BWV 873 In C Sharp Minor
5. Prelude & Fugue V BWV 874 In D Major
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Disc: 4
1. Prelude & Fugue XIV BWV 883 In F Sharp Minor
2. Prelude & Fugue XV In G Minor
3. Prelude & Fugue XVI BWV 885 In G Minor
4. Prelude & Fugue XVII BWV 886 In A Flat Major
5. Prelude & Fugue XVIII BWV 887 In G Sharp Minor
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On this CD:
  1. Das Wohltemperierte Klavier
    Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
    with Sviatoslav Richter


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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Red-Blooded Bach by a Master, 13 Oct 2005
By J Scott Morrison (Middlebury VT, USA) - See all my reviews
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A very generous friend gave me this set several years ago and I will be forever in her debt. I had never considered buying Richter playing Bach. For me he simply didn't seem to come out of the right tradition to play the Master of Leipzig. But I was mistaken, completely mistaken. This set of the WTC has become one of my most treasured possessions. For months it was in my car - a perfect way to listen to the Preludes and Fugues, a few at a time while driving short distances around town - and by now these performances are burned into my aural memory, as if they had always been there. There is such a feeling of inevitability about Richter's playing that I now cannot imagine them played any other way. Well, that's not entirely true, but close. Unlike Huibert Jonkers, whose review was posted here some months ago, I was a Glenn Gould groupie who thought his way with Bach was the best way. And though I still admire Gould, I must say that Richter has converted me. It's hard to put one's finger on what it is about Richter's playing except that it is so straightforward and full of good ol' artery-clogging cholesterol and yet so nuanced and highlighted, that it is impossible to resist. It's Romantic, I guess, and that's totally out of fashion these days. But I don't care about that. In fact, as an old pianist who has played the WTC at the keyboard for nigh on sixty years, I continue to have a hard time listening to WTC on the harpsichord. I suspect I'm not alone in that. We've been swept along in recent years by the 'historically-informed performance' folks and yet there are some of us who are not entirely convinced that the old-fashioned way with Bach isn't the best. Richter certainly fits in the 'old-fashioned' camp and that's fine with me.

Others have written here about individual details of these performances and I have little to add there. I am, like others, struck by Richter's wide dynamics and sometimes extreme tempi. For instance, the second prelude in WTC I goes faster than I've ever heard it and it is all the more exciting as a result. The overall shape of the performances, though, reveal a penetrating intellect and flawless technique put at the service of the music, granted Richter's own conception of the music, but who's to say that's not what Bach would have wanted?

I urgently recommend this box, especially since it is so attractively priced.

Scott Morrison

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great, but gamey, 2 Mar 2003
This rich recording is at times masked by reverberation, and the fruity sounding Bosendorfer. Richter's performance is gorgeous and constantly delightful, in a 'romantic' style; in other words, the pieces are not played in a crystalline or Gould-ian way, which I am more used to. Richter gives us a view of Bach which, flavoured with the burden of history, makes for a period piece, this is NOT a bad thing. I am so pleased to have bought this package, It is not background music for relaxation; this is an important document that should be treated with care and awe.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A review of Bach's Well Tempered Clavier played by Richter, 13 Feb 2001
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Richter developed a unique and profound love for Bach's music and this recording reflects that affinity that only the best musicians posses. The preludes and fugues is a selection of some of the most intense, powerful and emotive music I know of- indeed suited to Richter's own intense style of playing. In this recording, the great pianist appears so completely absorbed in his music that the purity and splendour of Bach's work is revealed brilliantly. It is a masterpiece of musical interpretation that reflects Richter's own laborious and fulfilling meditation on the music.
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