SFGate

Bach, ‘Well-Tempered Clavier,’ Book 1

The preludes and fugues that make up Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” operate on multiple levels at once — they’re a compilation of techniques for keyboard writing, a polemic on the subject of tuning ...
Jazz

Keith Jarrett: J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier – Book I

Keith Jarrett and Johann Sebastian Bach go back a long way. Between 1722 and 1742, Bach composed two sets of preludes and fugues in all twenty-four major and minor keys, written for keyboard; the ...
CounterPunch

The Well-Tempered Clavier at 300

Accessibility of knowledge was crucial to the Enlightenment. That ethos was embodied in the celebrated Encyclopédie of Diderot and D’Alembert, the first of its seventeen volumes appearing in 1751, the ...
NPR

Andras Schiff's 'Well-Tempered' Guide To Bach

When he was a boy, Andras Schiff labored over the tedious, repetitive finger studies that are universally loathed by aspiring pianists. He thought they were like spinach: yucky, but good for you if ...
New Statesman

Please, come in to my apartment. No, I don’t have any chairs

The keyboard works of The Well-Tempered Clavier sound more novel and luminous 300 years later than in their composer’s day. By Phil Hebblethwaite A camera pans down from high in a church to focus on a ...
Classic FM

This beautiful animation uses neon lights to bring Bach’s ‘The Well-Tempered Clavier’ to life

Visual artist Alan Warburton has used CGI neon lights to create a haunting animation inspired by Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s recording of Bach’s masterpiece. The result is mesmerising. The animation took ...
Forbes

Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier: Forget-Me-Nots And Intimations Of Mortality (Classical CD Of The Week)

The famous conductor Hans von Bülow, slightly less famous as a pianist now and nearly forgotten as a composer, remains most present to modern music lovers either as the jilted husband of Cosima von ...
Gramophone

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Consort – III

Clavier-Übung III, Movements: Christe, aller Welt Trost, BWV673 Phantasm Laurence Dreyfus, Conductor (Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movements: B minor, BWV893 Phantasm ...
Gramophone

Bach Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movements: C sharp minor, BWV873 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Sergey Schepkin, Piano (Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered ...
Jazz

J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier – Book I

Prelude & Fugues: XIII F-sharp major; XIII F-sharp major; XIV f-sharp minor; XV G major; XIV f-sharp minor; XV G major; XVI g minor; XVII A-flat major; XVI g minor; XVII A-flat major; XVIII g-sharp; ...
BBC

Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier

Live at BBC Proms from the Royal Albert Hall: Sir András Schiff performs Book 1 of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier. The master pianist plays nearly two hours of music that for many represents both ...