JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750)

Das Wohltemperirte Clavier

The Well-Tempered Clavier

 

48 Preludes and Fugues BWV846–893

 

CD 1:

No 1 in C major BWV846 [4'04] 1 Prelude [2'08] 2 Fugue [1'56]

No 2 in C minor BWV847 [3'16] 3 Prelude [1'31] 4 Fugue [1'45]

No 3 in C sharp major BWV848 [3'38] 5 Prelude [1'24] 6 Fugue [2'14]

No 4 in C sharp minor BWV849 [7'58] 7 Prelude [2'31] 8 Fugue [5'27]

No 5 in D major BWV850 [3'30] 9 Prelude [1'21] 10 Fugue [2'09]

No 6 in D minor BWV851 [4'16] 11 Prelude [1'42] 12 Fugue [2'34]

No 7 in E flat major BWV852 [5'16] 13 Prelude [3'34] 14 Fugue [1'42]

No 8 in E flat minor BWV853 [9'16] 15 Prelude [3'40] 16 Fugue [5'36]

No 9 in E major BWV854 [2'34] 17 Prelude [1'27] 18 Fugue [1'07]

No 10 in E minor BWV855 [3'29] 19 Prelude [2'19] 20 Fugue [1'10]

No 11 in F major BWV856 [2'37] 21 Prelude [1'02] 22 Fugue [1'35]

No 12 in F minor BWV857 [6'30] 23 Prelude [1'52] 24 Fugue [4'38]

 

CD 2:

No 13 in F sharp major BWV858 [3'49] 1 Prelude [1'30] 2 Fugue [2'19]

No 14 in F sharp minor BWV859 [4'18] 3 Prelude [1'01] 4 Fugue [3'17]

No 15 in G major BWV860 [3'54] 5 Prelude [0'55] 6 Fugue [2'59]

No 16 in G minor BWV861 [3'48] 7 Prelude [2'03] 8 Fugue [1'45]

No 17 in A flat major BWV862 [4'31] 9 Prelude [1'25] 10 Fugue [3'06]

No 18 in G sharp minor BWV863 [3'51] 11 Prelude [1'29] 12 Fugue [2'22]

No 19 in A major BWV864 [3'27] 13 Prelude [1'27] 14 Fugue [2'00]

No 20 in A minor BWV865 [6'40] 15 Prelude [1'02] 16 Fugue [5'38]

No 21 in B flat major BWV866 [3'10] 17 Prelude [1'20] 18 Fugue [1'50]

No 22 in B flat minor BWV867 [7'12] 19 Prelude [4'02] 20 Fugue [3'10]

No 23 in B major BWV868 [3'27] 21 Prelude [1'03] 22 Fugue [2'24]

No 24 in B minor BWV869 [11'36] 23 Prelude [4'47] 24 Fugue [6'49]

 

CD 3:

No 1 in C major BWV870 [4'10] 1 Prelude [2'34] 2 Fugue [1'36]

No 2 in C minor BWV871 [5'17] 3 Prelude [2'29] 4 Fugue [2'48]

No 3 in C sharp major BWV872 [3'48] 5 Prelude [1'56] 6 Fugue [1'52]

No 4 in C sharp minor BWV873 [7'02] 7 Prelude [4'48] 8 Fugue [2'14]

No 5 in D major BWV874 [8'31] 9 Prelude [5'34] 10 Fugue [2'57]

No 6 in D minor BWV875 [3'40] 11 Prelude [1'30] 12 Fugue [2'10]

No 7 in E flat major BWV876 [4'18] 13 Prelude [2'30] 14 Fugue [1'48]

No 8 in D sharp minor BWV877 [8'35] 15 Prelude [4'03] 16 Fugue [4'32]

No 9 in E major BWV878 [8'21] 17 Prelude [4'53] 18 Fugue [3'28]

No 10 in E minor BWV879 [7'00] 19 Prelude [4'13] 20 Fugue [2'47]

No 11 in F major BWV880 [5'01] 21 Prelude [3'22] 22 Fugue [1'39]

No 12 in F minor BWV881 [6'36] 23 Prelude [4'44] 24 Fugue [1'52]

 

CD 4:

No 13 in F sharp major BWV882 [6'00] 1 Prelude [3'28] 2 Fugue [2'32]

No 14 in F sharp minor BWV883 [6'48] 3 Prelude [3'06] 4 Fugue [3'42]

No 15 in G major BWV884 [3'53] 5 Prelude [2'40] 6 Fugue [1'13]

No 16 in G minor BWV885 [6'16] 7 Prelude [3'39] 8 Fugue [2'37]

No 17 in A flat major BWV886 [7'47] 9 Prelude [4'08] 10 Fugue [3'39]

No 18 in G sharp minor BWV887 [7'31] 11 Prelude [4'11] 12 Fugue [3'20]

No 19 in A major BWV888 [3'23] 13 Prelude [2'10] 14 Fugue [1'13]

No 20 in A minor BWV889 [5'56] 15 Prelude [4'27] 16 Fugue [1'29]

No 21 in B flat major BWV890 [9'58] 17 Prelude [7'22] 18 Fugue [2'36]

No 22 in B flat minor BWV891 [7'45] 19 Prelude [3'09] 20 Fugue [4'36]

No 23 in B major BWV892 [5'32] 21 Prelude [2'05] 22 Fugue [3'27]

No 24 in B minor BWV893 [3'57] 21 Prelude [2'13] 22 Fugue [1'44]

 

Total Duration: 4 hours 24 minutes

 

Angela Hewitt piano

 

August 2007 sees the start of Angela Hewitt’s Bach World Tour in which she will bring her celebrated performances of The Well-Tempered Clavier to twenty-five countries on six continents. This tour will celebrate the wonderful voyage she began in 1994 when she undertook to record all of Bach’s major keyboard works for Hyperion Records—a project that

took eleven years to complete. Concurrently, Hyperion are releasing a limited edition box set of Hewitt’s iconic recordings of ‘The 48’—held by many critics to be the definitive piano version of Bach’s incomparable masterpiece.

 

Hyperion CDS44291-4