JS Bach: Well- Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Excerpts)

For this listener at least, Anderszewski’s interpretations and juxtapositions have a compelling inevitability; but the other reason for the recording’s success lies in his pianism. Anderszewski’s... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Jan 2021
Catalogue No: 9029511875
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 77 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

February 2021

Editor's Choice
BBC Music Magazine

April 2021

Instrumental Choice
Gramophone Awards

2021

Winner - Piano
Presto Recordings of the Year

Finalist 2021
International Classical Music Awards

2022

Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year

2021

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Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 1 in C major, BWV870

Work length4:54

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Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

I. Prelude

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II. Fugue

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Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 12 in F minor, BWV881

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Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

I. Prelude

Track length3:38

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II. Fugue

Track length1:42

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Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 17 in B-flat major, BWV886

Work length6:28

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Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

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II. Fugue

Track length2:56

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Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 8, BWV877

Work length10:05

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Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

I. Prelude

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II. Fugue

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Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 11 in F major, BWV880

Work length4:43

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Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

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Track length3:04

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II. Fugue

Track length1:39

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Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 22 B flat Minor, BWV891

Work length9:02

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Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

I. Prelude

Track length3:11

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II. Fugue

Track length5:51

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Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 7, BWV876

Work length3:50

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Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

I. Prelude

Track length2:12

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II. Fugue

Track length1:38

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Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 16 in G minor, BWV885

Work length5:29

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Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

I. Prelude

Track length2:48

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II. Fugue

Track length2:41

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Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 9 in E major, BWV878

Work length7:25

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Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

I. Prelude

Track length4:51

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II. Fugue

Track length2:34

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Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 18, BWV887

Work length10:54

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Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

I. Prelude

Track length3:56

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II. Fugue

Track length6:58

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Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 23 in B major, BWV892

Work length5:29

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Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

I. Prelude

Track length1:36

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II. Fugue

Track length3:53

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Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 24, BWV893

Work length4:14

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Piotr Anderszewski (piano)

I. Prelude

Track length2:20

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II. Fugue

Track length1:54

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Piotr Anderszewski takes a characteristically creative approach to Bach’s Das Wohltemperierte Klavier (The Well-tempered Clavier). Rather than recording all 48 of its prelude-and-fugue pairings, he has focused on 12 pairings from Book Two. “I decided to put the pieces together in a sequence of my own subjective choosing, based sometimes on key relationships, at other times on contrasts. The idea behind this specific order is to create a sense of drama that suggests a cycle: 12 characters conversing with one another, mirroring each other.” Anderszewski’s last Erato album of Bach prompted BBC Music Magazine to write: “For anyone who loves Bach (or the piano) … this life-enhancing disc is required listening.

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April 2021

For this listener at least, Anderszewski’s interpretations and juxtapositions have a compelling inevitability; but the other reason for the recording’s success lies in his pianism. Anderszewski’s flexible, responsive touch and his often slowish tempos allow a subtle suggestiveness..The whole set is beautiful from start to finish.

February 2021

Anderszewski here poses a most intriguing question: what happens when you take a group of 12 Preludes and Fugues from Book 2 of the ‘48’ and intermingle them? The result...is less of a box of Quality Street to be consumed slumped on the sofa and more of an invitation to a cocktail party of great sophistication. Anderszewski says in the note that he perceives them as character pieces and indeed the result has the feeling of a Baroque Carnaval.

March 2021

This is playing of unadorned purity, shorn of all extra-mural attractions in performances that often transcend even the most exalted names. There is none of Gould’s eccentricity or Tureck’s occasional pedantry...He makes you long for more Bach, or indeed any other great composer. A pianist who offers no concessions, who remains entirely himself, Anderszewski achieves something of Lipatti’s level of exaltation.

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