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John Paul - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well Tempered Clavier (complete) [4 CDs] (2015)

John Paul - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well Tempered Clavier (complete) (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,25 Gb | Total time: 154:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Centaur Records | # CRC 3450 | Recorded: 2012-2014

John Paul makes the first ever recording of the complete Well Tempered Clavier, performed on Lautenwerck. The Lautenwerck, or lute harpsichord, is similar to a harpsichord, but it has gut strings, and this has a far more mellow sound. Bach himself owned a lautenwerck, and was very fond of the instrument. Bach's keyboard works were not written strictly for the harpsichord. He would doubtless have seen performance on The Well Tempered Clavier on the lautenwerck as being completely appropriate.
András Schiff - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1- Live at the BBC Proms 2017 (2020)

András Schiff - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1- Live at the BBC Proms 2017 (2020)
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~ 4.1 Mbps | 1hr 50mn | 4.69 GB
Audio: DTS, 6 ch, 1510 kbps \ AC3, 2 ch, 448 kbps
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC, 1280x720, ~ 3.0 Mbps | 1hr 50mn | 3.02 GB
Audio: AC3, 6 ch, 448 kbps \ AC3, 2 ch, 448 kbps
Genre: Music | Classical | Naxos

Johann Sebastian Bach was undoubtedly the greatest musical thinker of his age. Dubbed ‘the Old Testament of music’ by the conductor and pianist Hans von Bülow, The Well-Tempered Clavier is acknowledged to be one of the most significant works ever written for the keyboard. Each of these 24 preludes and fugues encapsulates its own mood, and Bach’s delight in mixing technical strictness with freedom of expression has made this work an indispensable element of Western culture for centuries. Sir András Schiff is heralded as one of the finest Bach interpreters today, and this first complete performance at the prestigious BBC Proms was summed up as ‘stupendous’ by The Independent.
András Schiff - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2- Live at the BBC Proms 2018 (2020)

András Schiff - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2- Live at the BBC Proms 2018 (2020)
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~ 4.1 Mbps | 2hr 22mn | 6.04 GB
Audio: DTS, 6 ch, 1510 kbps \ AC3, 2 ch, 448 kbps
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC, 1280x720, ~ 3.0 Mbps | 2hr 22mn | 3.88 GB
Audio: AC3, 6 ch, 448 kbps \ AC3, 2 ch, 448 kbps
Genre: Music | Classical | Naxos

Distinguished Bach specialist Sir András Schiff returned to the BBC Proms in 2018 to present Book II of The Well-Tempered Clavier. Extending the variety already evident in Book I (available on 2.110653), Bachs effortless brilliance and new-found sonorities push harmony and counterpoint further than ever with a combination of ancient and modern styles, church austerity and galant lightness. Schiff has said that no-one combines the sacred and the secular as Bach does, and this is comprehensively demonstrated in Bachs fascinating and challenging sequence. This performance in the Royal Albert Hall was described as a musical meditation for our troubled times by the Independent.
Trevor Pinnock - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier II (2022)

Trevor Pinnock - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier II (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 844 Mb | Total time: 67:50+74:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 486 0771 | Recorded: 2021

Following the enthusiastic reception of Book 1, Trevor Pinnock continues with the recordings of the second book of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, exploring the summit of Bach’s intellectual and contrapuntal mastery.
Luca Guglielmi - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier II (2022)

Luca Guglielmi - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier II (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 526 Mb | Total time: 132:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CAvi-music | # AVI 8553233 | Recorded: 2017

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.
Phantasm - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Consort - III (2023)

Phantasm - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Consort - III (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 316 Mb | Total time: 65:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Linn Records | # CKD 708 | Recorded: 2022

This is the third and final instalment of the Well-Tempered Consort series (5 Diapasons, Gramophone Editor’s Choice, BBC Music Magazine Chamber Choice). In this programme devised by its director Laurence Dreyfus, the viol consort Phantasm continues to shine new light on the fugues from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier interspersed with some of the composer’s most harmonically adventurous experiments from the Clavierübung III. This polyphonic feast also includes two works from the Inventions and Sinfonias as well as the Fantasia in G major BWV 572, or Pièce d’orgue as it is sometimes called, which boasts an extraordinary closing pedal point. A fitting end to a remarkable journey!

Phantasm - Bach: The Well-Tempered Consort - I (2020)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Sept. 25, 2020
Phantasm - Bach: The Well-Tempered Consort - I (2020)

Phantasm - Bach: The Well-Tempered Consort - I (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 305 Mb | Total time: 66:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Linn Records | CKD 618 | Recorded: 2019

In this new recording Phantasm make no excuses for arranging some of Bach’s remarkable keyboard music for a consort of viols. Led by director Laurence Dreyfus they go on a conscious mission to uncover the hidden riches concealed behind the more neutral resources of the harpsichord and organ so as to liberate the fascinating characters lurking in the shadows and behind the scenes within Bach’s individual polyphonic lines. In the process of fugal confrontation among three to six musicians, they come face to face with the astounding psychological insights of Bach’s most radical inventions.
Colin Tilney - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 & 2 (1990) 4CDs

Colin Tilney - Johann Sebastian Bach: Das Wohltemperirte Clavier (1990) 4CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.8 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 705 Mb | Artwork included
Classical, Baroque | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66351/4 | Time: 05:04:36

In his recording of Bach's 48 Colin Tilney, unlike his fellow competitors in the same repertory, plays both a clavichord (Book 1) and a harpsichord (Book 2). Why not? Bach's title for the first book of 24 preludes and fugues, The Well-tempered Clavier leaves both this issue and that of tuning wide open. The clavichord was a favourite instrument of Bach's, so was the harpsichord and the organ; indeed, I am sorry that Tilney does not include a chamber organ since some of the pieces, the E major Prelude and Fugue (Book 2), for instance, seem well-suited to it. Tilney's performance of the 48 differs again from almost if not all others in the sequence which he adopts in playing the preludes and fugues. But an apparently random approach is in fact nothing of the kind, but one that is directly linked with tuning. We know that Bach himself was a master in matters of tuning as he was in all other aspects of his craft. What we do not know is the exact nature of his tuning.
Gary Cooper - J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (2000)

Gary Cooper - J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (2000)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:07:30 | 872 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: ASV Digital | Catalog: CD GAX 251

Gary Cooper is a multi-talented musician, equally adept at both harpsichord and fortepiano performance, as well as conducting. His keyboard performances follow strict historic practices and while he is identified with Baroque music, particularly the works of J.S. Bach, Cooper is also known for his incisive Beethoven interpretations.
Andras Schiff - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2- Live at the BBC Proms 2018 (2020) [Blu-Ray]

András Schiff - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2- Live at the BBC Proms 2018 (2020) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-2 Video / 27883 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 142 min | 35,7 Gb
Audio1: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3522 kbps / 24-bit
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BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29,97 fps | 142 min | 7,69 Gb
Audio: DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | Naxos

Distinguished Bach specialist Sir András Schiff returned to the BBC Proms in 2018 to present Book II of The Well-Tempered Clavier. Extending the variety already evident in Book I (available on 2.110653), Bachs effortless brilliance and new-found sonorities push harmony and counterpoint further than ever with a combination of ancient and modern styles, church austerity and galant lightness. Schiff has said that no-one combines the sacred and the secular as Bach does, and this is comprehensively demonstrated in Bachs fascinating and challenging sequence. This performance in the Royal Albert Hall was described as a musical meditation for our troubled times by the Independent.