Luca Guglielmi – J.S. Bach: The well-tempered Clavier, Book II (2022) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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-Cthenischen 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.

Tracklist:
1-1. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude I in C Major, BWV 870 (Version B) (02:36)
1-2. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue I à 3 in C Major, BWV 870 (01:47)
1-3. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude II in C Minor, BWV 871 (Version A) (01:21)
1-4. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue II à 4 in C Minor, BWV 871 (02:14)
1-5. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude III in C-Sharp Major, BWV 872 (Version B) (02:49)
1-6. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue III in C-Sharp Major, BWV 872 (02:11)
1-7. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude IV in C-Sharp Minor, BWV 873 (Version B) (04:05)
1-8. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue IV à 3 in C-Sharp Minor, BWV 873 (02:45)
1-9. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude V in D Major, BWV 874 (Version A) (02:50)
1-10. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue V à 4 in D Major, BWV 874 (02:49)
1-11. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude VI in D Minor, BWV 875 (Version A) (01:39)
1-12. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue VI à 3 in D Minor, BWV 875 (02:01)
1-13. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude VII in E-Flat Major, BWV 876 (Version B) (03:17)
1-14. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue VII à 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 876 (02:28)
1-15. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude VIII in E-Flat Minor, BWV 877 (Versin A) (02:08)
1-16. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue VIII à 4 in E-Flat Minor, BWV 877 (03:58)
1-17. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude IX in E Major, BWV 878 (Version A) (02:55)
1-18. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue IX à 4 in E Major, BWV 878 (02:52)
1-19. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude X in E Minor, BWV 879 (Version B) (02:32)
1-20. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue X à 3 in E Minor, BWV 879 (03:14)
1-21. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude XI in F Major, BWV 880 (Version A) (04:05)
1-22. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue XI à 3 in F Major, BWV 880 (01:45)
1-23. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude XII in F Minor, BWV 881 (Version B) (02:38)
1-24. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue XII à 3 in F Minor, BWV 881 (02:13)
2-25. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude XIII in F-Sharp Major, BWV 882 (Version A) (03:26)
2-26. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue XIII à 3 in F-Sharp Major, BWV 882 (02:45)
2-27. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude XIV in F-Sharp Minor, BWV 883 (Version A) (02:55)
2-28. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue XIV à 3 in F-Sharp Minor, BWV 883 (03:07)
2-29. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude XV in G Major, BWV 884 (Version A) (01:14)
2-30. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue XV à 3 in G Major, BWV 884 (01:20)
2-31. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude XVI in G Minor, BWV 885 (Version A) (02:01)
2-32. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue XVI à 4 in G Minor, BWV 885 (03:37)
2-33. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude XVII in A-Flat Major, BWV 886 (Version B) (04:02)
2-34. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue XVII à 4 in A-Flat Major, BWV 886 (.) (02:55)
2-35. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude XVIII in G-Sharp Minor, BWV 887 (Version A) (02:51)
2-36. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue XVIII à 3 in G-Sharp Minor, BWV 887 (05:41)
2-37. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude XIX in A Major, BWV 888 (Version A) (02:03)
2-38. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue XIX à 3 in A Major, BWV 888 (01:24)
2-39. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude XX in A Minor, BWV 889 (Version B) (02:26)
2-40. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue XX à 3 in A Minor, BWV 889 (01:53)
2-41. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude XXI in B-Flat Major, BWV 890 (Version A) (04:51)
2-42. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue XXI à 3 in B-Flat Major, BWV 890 (02:18)
2-43. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude XXII in B-Flat Minor, BWV 891 (Version A) (02:45)
2-44. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue XXII à 4 in B-Flat Minor, BWV 891 (05:25)
2-45. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude XXIII in B Major, BWV 892 (Version A) (03:37)
2-46. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue XXIII à 4 in B Major, BWV 892 (02:09)
2-47. Luca Guglielmi – Prelude XXIV in B Minor, BWV 893 (Version A) (02:16)
2-48. Luca Guglielmi – Fugue XXIV à 3 in B Minor, BWV 893 (01:48)

Download:

mqs.link_LucaGuglielmiJ.S.BachThewelltemperedClavierB00kII20222496.part1.rar
mqs.link_LucaGuglielmiJ.S.BachThewelltemperedClavierB00kII20222496.part2.rar
mqs.link_LucaGuglielmiJ.S.BachThewelltemperedClavierB00kII20222496.part3.rar

Related Posts: