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	• Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 Johann Sebastian Bach, András Schiff Decca, 1990 average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Exquisite Performance

Andras Schiff gives a well considered performance of the first 24 Preludes and Fugues by J.S. Bach. It is music for the soul and this particular version is executed with great integrity. A very important addition to any Bach lover's collection.

I like it

Reply to that review with a two-star: music preference is a personal choice, and there's no greater or less great. I think Schiff is as good as Gould. I like both. At least no one in this world can do better than those two guys on interpreting the Clavier Book.

great!

I agree with other reviewers. This is the best recording I have heard, combining great sound, with great technique, sensitivity, and execution. Others I have listened to include Richter, Gould, and Hewitt. Get this one.

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You have to love this recording!

It is impossible to imagine anyone not loving Bach's Well-tempered Clavier. The first prelude is so familiar... Gounod turned into his "Ave Maria", and so many fair to middling piano students have studied this piece. Of course, the other 23 pieces are not be so familiar, but they are accessable and all well worth the time spent getting to know them.

You have to love this recording! Schiff plays in a way that you actually hear the voices; his phrasing of the counterpoint makes the music so accessable. This particular recording has clearly stood the test of time. Schiff made it back in the mid-60's.

I first discovered Schiff's Well-tempered Clavier recordings because Ted Liddy recommended them in his "The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection". I forgot about the recordings for a while only to re-discover them after an i-tunes foul-up. It is one of the few times I would be thankful for a technological problem.

I highly recommend this recording.

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Peerless performances!

According the great tradition of the great pianists, Schiff has written his name with golden letters in the musical memory. His approach reveals a sharp and zealous sense of the counterpoint, the smart changes of modulation, polished tune, expressive daintiness, careful phrasing and accurate balance.

The well tempered clavier demands from the player a countless amount of requisites that Schiff owns. His playing is at the meantime, evocative and reflexive, thunderous and lyric, grandeur and éclat, he never abuses of pedal and every little bar fits adequately into the context. Sometimes he makes remind us to Edwin Fisher in which sense of the span concerns, but his magisterial approach reveals an overwhelming accomplishment.

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Schiff plays the 48 preludes and fugues on the piano, with the utmost sensitivity to voicing and the phrasing of counterpoint. He coaxes a lovely sound from his instrument (better captured in the 1985 recording of Book II than in the preceding year's takes of Book I), and the experience of following him as he explores each piece is exceptionally rewarding. --Ted Libbey

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Tracks
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes And Fugues I Through XII: I. C Major | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes And Fugues I Through XII: II. C. Minor | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes And Fugues I Through XII: III. C. Sharp Major | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes And Fugues I Through XII: IV. C. Sharp Minor | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes And Fugues I Through XII: V. D Major | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes And Fugues I Through XII: VI. D Minor | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes And Fugues I Through XII: VII. E Flat Major | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes And Fugues I Through XII: VIII. E Flat Minor | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes And Fugues I Through XII: IX. E Major | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes And Fugues I Through XII: X. E Minor | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes And Fugues I Through XII: XI. F Major | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes And Fugues I Through XII: X.II. F Minor | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes and Fugues XIII - XXIV: XIII. F Sharp Major | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes and Fugues XIII - XXIV: F Sharp Minor | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes and Fugues XIII - XXIV: G Major | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes and Fugues XIII - XXIV: G Minor | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes and Fugues XIII - XXIV: A Flat Major | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes and Fugues XIII - XXIV: G Sharp Minor | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes and Fugues XIII - XXIV: A Major | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes and Fugues XIII - XXIV: A Minor | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes and Fugues XIII - XXIV: B Flat Major | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes and Fugues XIII - XXIV: B Flat Minor | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes and Fugues XIII - XXIV: B Major | The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes and Fugues XIII - XXIV: B Minor

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