Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier

Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier

Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier
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Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Angela Hewitt
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Music Label: Hyperion UK
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Prelude
  2. Fugue
  3. Prelude
  4. Fugue
  5. Prelude
  6. Fugue
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  8. Fugue
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  10. Fugue
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  12. Fugue
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  14. Fugue
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  18. Fugue
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  20. Fugue
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  22. Fugue
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  24. Fugue
Music CD 2
  1. Prelude
  2. Fugue
  3. Prelude
  4. Fugue
  5. Prelude
  6. Fugue
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  8. Fugue
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  18. Fugue
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  20. Fugue
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  22. Fugue
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  24. Fugue
Music CD 3
  1. Prelude
  2. Fugue
  3. Prelude
  4. Fugue
  5. Prelude
  6. Fugue
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  24. Fugue
Music CD 4
  1. Prelude
  2. Fugue
  3. Prelude
  4. Fugue
  5. Prelude
  6. Fugue
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  24. Fugue

Music reviews of Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier

Music Review: Tempted to deduct a star for that cover...
Rating: 5 Stars

...and even worse, it's repeated on the four individual cardboard sleeves inside. I'm sure I've seen worse covers, but I can't actually remember when.

However, by opening the box and its contents face down, so that I don't have to look at this particular bit of silliness (hopefully the deviser thereof has since been taken out and shot), and then bunging the disc in the machine and hitting the play button - magic! Ms Hewitt may never make the supermodel stakes in cheesy covers, but by gosh she does when the fingers tinkle the ivories. Suddenly you forget the stupid covers and disappear into the world of the genius that was and is J.S. Bach. The WTC is one of the great achievements of the keyboard, and Ms. Hewitt makes it dance and sing and jump for joy, but without overromanticising it in any way. You (well, OK, I) find yourself moaning along and singing and waving your hands in the air and tapping your feet.

Purists will (correctly) point out that this was written for the harpsichord, so playing on a modern piano is inappropriate. However, I am no purist, and if a modern artist on a modern instrument can make an 18th century composer speak to us today, then s/he has my vote. What would J.S. have thought? I bet he'd have loved it. Of course, given a modern Steinway, he, one of the greatest keyboardists of his time, would have written extraordinary things and not the WTC we now know.

To my admittedly untutored ears, Ms. Hewitt communicates Herr Bach brilliantly. To me, it simply SOUNDS right. I recommend it.
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