Luca Guglielmi: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier II [2CD]

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premiera polska: 2022-07-15
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
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Editor's info:
BACH’s WTC II on an extraordinary FORTEPIANO
by Gottfried Silbermann (copy by Kerstin Schwarz)
Original time – Original sound

Das Wohltemperirte Clavier, a collection of preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys completed by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1722, was clearly modelled along the lines of Ariadne Musica by Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1662-1746, Kapellmeister in Baden from 1715 to 1746) – an organ music anthology published for the first time in 1702 and probably known by Bach in its second 1715 edition. Bach took Fischer’s original layout of 20 keys and expanded it to a total of 24, thereby creating the first self-contained collection of music written for the entire corpus of existing keys.

Bach, who, on the handwritten title page of the beautiful copy now preserved in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek (Mus. Ms. P 415), signed as Hochf. Anhalt-Cöthenischen Capel-Meistern und Directore derer Cammer Musiquen, clearly indicated his purpose in composing this incomparable collection: “for the profit of musical youth desirous of learning, and especially for the pastime of those already skilled in this study.” ………..

Regarding the instrument we have chosen for this recording of Vol. II, we have selected a copy by Kerstin Schwarz of the fortepiano built by Gottfried Silbermann in 1749, now preserved in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. In recent years a clearer picture has emerged of Bach’s instrumentarium, and one can infer that in the last ten years of his life he had a Silbermann fortepiano at his disposal. By then he regarded it as a valid alternative to the harpsichord, the clavichord, and the Lautenwerck, which, taken together, embodied the generic term Clavier. Silbermann, for his part, relied on Bach’s assistance as Cantor to help him sell his valuable instruments (a fortepiano cost as much as a Capellmeister’s annual salary!), and he was entirely indebted to Bartolomeo Cristofori for the design of his fortepiano mechanism, which he later applied to the robust makeup of harpsichords of late German build.

This recording of the Zweyter Theil of Das Wohltemperirte Clavier is dedicated to her memory as well to her husband, the late Paul Badura-Skoda (*1927 †2019), incomparable pianist and soloist on historical fortepianos.

Version A: after the original manuscript, London (1742)
Version B: after the tradition by Johann Christoph Altnichols (1744)

muzycy:
Luca Guglielmi: Silbermann piano - Copy by Kerstin Schwarz of the fortepiano built by Gottfried Silbermann in 1749

utwory:
CD1:
1. No. 1 in C major BWV 870 [Version B] - Prelude I in C minor 02:37
2. No. 1 in C major BWV 870 [Version B] - Fugue I à 3 in C Major 01:47
3. No. 2 in C minor BWV 871 [Version A] - Prelude II in C minor 01:21
4. No. 2 in C minor BWV 871 [Version A] - Fugue II à 4 in C Minor 02:14
5. Fugue II à 4 in C Minor - Prelude III 02:49
6. Fugue II à 4 in C Minor - Fugue III à 3 02:11
7. No. 4 in C sharp minor BWV 873 [Version B] - Prelude IV 04:05
8. No. 4 in C sharp minor BWV 873 [Version B] - Fugue IV à 3 02:45
9. No. 5 in D major BWV 874 [Version A] - Prelude V 02:50
10. No. 5 in D major BWV 874 [Version A] - Fugue V à 4 02:49
11. No. 6 in D minor BWV 875 [Version A] - Prelude VI 01:39
12. No. 6 in D minor BWV 875 [Version A] - Fugue VI à 3 02:01
13. No. 7 in E flat major BWV 876 - Prelude VII 03:17
14. No. 7 in E flat major BWV 876 - Fugue VII à 4 02:28
15. No. 8 in D sharp minor BWV 877 - Prelude VIII 02:08
16. No. 8 in D sharp minor BWV 877 - Fugue VIII à 4 03:58
17. No. 9 in E major BWV 878 [Version A] - Prelude IX 02:55
18. No. 9 in E major BWV 878 [Version A] - Fugue IX à 4 02:52
19. No. 10 in E minor BWV 879 [Version B] - Prelude X 02:32
20. No. 10 in E minor BWV 879 [Version B] - Fugue X à 3 03:14
21. No. 11 in F major BWV 880 [Version A] - Prelude 04:05
22. No. 11 in F major BWV 880 [Version A] - Fugue XI à 3 01:45
23. No. 12 in F minor BWV 881 [Version B] - Prelude 02:38
24. No. 12 in F minor BWV 881 [Version B] - Fugue XII à 3 02:14

CD2:
1. No. 13 in F sharp major BWV 882 [Version A] - Prelude XIII 03:26
2. No. 13 in F sharp major BWV 882 [Version A] - Fugue XIII à 3 02:45
3. No. 14 in F sharp minor BWV 883 - Prelude XIV 02:55
4. No. 14 in F sharp minor BWV 883 - Fugue XIV à 3 03:07
5. No. 15 in G major BWV 884 [Version A] - Prelude XV 01:14
6. No. 15 in G major BWV 884 [Version A] - Fugue XV à 3 01:20
7. No. 16 in G minor BWV 885 [Version A] - Prelude XVI Largo 02:01
8. No. 16 in G minor BWV 885 [Version A] - Fugue XVI à 4 03:37
9. No. 17 in A flat major BWV 886 - Prelude XVII 04:02
10. No. 17 in A flat major BWV 886 - Fugue XVII à 4 02:55
11. No. 18 in G sharp minor BWV 887 - Prelude XVIII 02:51
12. No. 18 in G sharp minor BWV 887 - Fugue XVIII à 3 05:41
13. No. 19 in A major BWV 888 [Version A] - Prelude XIX 02:03
14. No. 19 in A major BWV 888 [Version A] - Fugue XIX à 3 01:24
15. No. 20 in A minor BWV 889 [Version B] - Prelude XX 02:26
16. No. 20 in A minor BWV 889 [Version B] - Fugue XX à 3 01:53
17. No. 21 in B flat major BWV 890 [Version A] - Prelude XXI 04:51
18. No. 21 in B flat major BWV 890 [Version A] - Fugue XXI à 3 02:18
19. No. 22 in B flat minor BWV 891 [Version A] - Prelude XXII 02:45
20. No. 22 in B flat minor BWV 891 [Version A] - Fugue XXII à 4 05:25
21. No. 23 in B major BWV 892 [Version A] - Prelude XXIII 02:09
22. No. 23 in B major BWV 892 [Version A] - Fugue XXIII à 4 03:37
23. No. 24 in B minor BWV 893 [Version A] - Prelude XXIV 02:16
24. No. 24 in B minor BWV 893 [Version A] - Fugue XXIV à 3 01:49

wydano: 8th Apr 2022
nagrano: March 2017, Santuario della Beata Vergine Maria del Monte Carmelo (Colletto, Roletto, Pinerolo)

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