Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1

Because Trevor Pinnock’s solo harpsichord forays are few and far between these days, it’s easy to forget just what a superb player he was, and still is, judging from his first complete recording... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2020 More…

Release Date: 1st May 2020
Catalogue No: 4838436
Label: DG
Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue In C Major, BWV 846

4:30

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

2:17

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II. Fugue

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in C Minor, BWV 847

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

1:35

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in C Sharp Major, BWV 848

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

1:27

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II. Fugue

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in C Sharp Minor, BWV 849

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

2:41

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II. Fugue

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in D Major, BWV 850

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in D Minor, BWV 851

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

1:27

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II. Fugue

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in E Flat Major, BWV 852

6:56

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

5:03

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II. Fugue

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in E Flat Minor, BWV 853

9:29

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

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II. Fugue

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in E Major, BWV 854

2:51

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

1:30

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II. Fugue

1:21

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in E Minor, BWV 855

3:35

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

2:12

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II. Fugue

1:23

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in F Major, BWV 856

2:22

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

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II. Fugue

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in F Minor, BWV 857

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

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1:59

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II. Fugue

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in F Sharp Major, BWV 858

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in F Sharp Minor, BWV 859

3:56

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

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1:13

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II. Fugue

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in G Major, BWV 860

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

1:04

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II. Fugue

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in G Minor, BWV 861

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

1:54

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II. Fugue

2:48

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in A Flat Major, BWV 862

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

1:24

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II. Fugue

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in G Sharp Minor, BWV 863

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

1:44

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II. Fugue

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in A Major, BWV 864

3:48

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

1:28

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II. Fugue

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in A Minor, BWV 865

5:28

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

1:14

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II. Fugue

4:14

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in B Flat Major, BWV 866

3:10

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

1:15

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II. Fugue

1:55

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in B Flat Minor, BWV 867

6:48

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

3:32

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II. Fugue

3:16

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in B Major, BWV 868

3:25

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

0:59

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II. Fugue

2:26

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Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in B Minor, BWV 869

12:24

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Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Recorded: 2019-01-04
Recording Venue: Colyer-Fergusson Hall, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

I. Prelude

5:03

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II. Fugue

7:21

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Trevor Pinnock is a true pioneer of the early music movement As founder and former leader of The English Concert he enjoys a longstanding relationship with Archiv Produktion and Deutsche Grammophon Among his celebrated recordings are Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos Handel’s Messiah and Concerti Grossi Vivaldi’s Four Seasons The Harmonious Blacksmith Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Partitas Throughout his interpretations Pinnock remains true to his core principles favouring musicality and inspiration above musical orthodoxy Achieving an exceptional reputation as a conductor, chamber musician and harpsichordist he has received enthusiastic critical acclaim.

With his first recording of The Well Tempered Clavier (Book 1) Pinnock explores the summit of Bach’s intellectual and contrapuntal mastery “My journey with the Well Tempered Clavier has been life long. I first encountered it at about 12 years old when someone gave me a pink and gold bound volume, the old Czerny edition, which we now know to be notoriously unreliable. This gave me hours of discovery. A few years later, I heard all the preludes and fugues played on the piano on the radio, and I was hooked. In my twenties I myself recorded some preludes and fugues for radio broadcast, and I knew then that one day I would play them all. The mountain seemed insurmountable, however, and Bach a formidable and severe task master how could I possibly delve into the density of some of those fugues, let alone understand them?

So, although I subsequently performed various others of the preludes and fugues, any plan to record all of them was repeatedly postponed by increments of ten years until quite recently, when I decided I could put it off no longer. Now they will be a central part of me for the rest of my life."

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August 2020

Because Trevor Pinnock’s solo harpsichord forays are few and far between these days, it’s easy to forget just what a superb player he was, and still is, judging from his first complete recording of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1...Pinnock is a direct and straightforward player. He avoids the exaggerated articulation and agogic mannerisms that way too many period-instrument practitioners deem stylish.

Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1

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