Bach: Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol. 6 (The Well-Tempered Clavier) - Benjamin Allard (3 CDs)

After five volumes devoted to the early years of J. S. Bach, up to the Weimar period, Benjamin Alard takes an utterly fascinating approach to the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier. First he offers the listener an astonishing mental preparation on the clavichord, derived mainly from the Clavier-Büchlein for Wilhelm Friedemann. Then he arranges the preludes and fugues in a new order, and to play his programme he has chosen two instruments for which the word ‘extraordinary’ is not too strong: here is the moment when the glorious Hass family of instrument builders comes on the scene, in a festival of colours and registrations each more breathtaking than the last.

1 Bach, J S: Præludium 1 in C Major, BWV 846A
2 Bach, J S: Fugue in C Major, BWV953
3 Bach, J S: Applicato in C Major, BWV994
4 Bach, J S: Præambulum 1 in C Major, BWV 924
5 Bach, w F: Præludium in C Major, BWV 924A
6 Bach, J S: Præludium in C Major, BWV 933
7 Bach, J S: Præludium 12 in F minor, BWV 857
8 Bach, J S: Præludium 11 in F Major, BWV 856
9 Bach, J S: Præambulum in F Major, BWV 927
10 Bach, J S: Præludium in F Major, BWV 928
11 Bach, J S: Præludium 6 in D minor, BWV 851
12 Bach, J S: Præludium in D minor, BWV 935
13 Bach, J S: "Jesu Meine Freude" in D minor, BWV 753 (Chorale Prelude)
14 Bach, J S: Præludium 2 in D minor, BWV 926
15 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fughetta in D minor, BWV 899
16 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fughetta in G Major, BWV 902A & BWV 902A / 2
17 Bach, J S: Præambulum in G minor, BWV 930
18 Bach, J S: Præludium 10 in E minor, BWV 855A
19 Bach, J S: Fuga in E minor, BWV 855A / 2
20 Bach, J S: Præludium in E minor, BWV 938
21 Bach, w F: Præludium in E minor, BWV 932: I. Allegro
22 Bach, J S: Præludium in E Major, BWV 937: II. Adagio
23 Bach, J S: Præludium 9 in E Major, BWV 854: III. Allegro
24 Bach, J S: Præludium 4 in C Sharp minor, BWV 849
25 Bach, J S: Præludium 3 in C Sharp Major, BWV 848
26 Bach, J S: "Wer Nur Den Lieben Gott LÄßT Walten" in a Minor, BWV 691 (Chorale Prelude)
27 Bach, J S: Præludium 4 in D Major, BWV 850
28 Bach, J S: Praeludium in D Major, BWV 925
29 Bach, J S: Præludium in D Major, BWV 936
30 Bach, J S: Allemande* in G minor, BWV 836
31 Bach, J S: Præludium 8 in E-Flat minor, BWV 853
32 Bach, J S: Præludium 2 in C minor, BWV 847A
33 Bach, J S: Præludium in C minor, BWV 934
34 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga in C Major, BWV 846
35 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga XI in F Major, BWV 856
36 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga VI in D minor, BWV 851
37 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga XV in G Major, BWV 860
38 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga X in E minor, BWV 855
39 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga XIX in a Major, BWV 864
40 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga XIV in F-Sharp minor, BWV 859
41 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga XXIII in B Major, BWV 868
42 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga XVIII in G-Sharp minor, BWV 863
43 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga III in C-Sharp Major, BWV 848
44 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga XXII in B-Flat minor, BWV 867
45 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga VII in E-Flat Major, BWV 852
46 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga XX in a Minor, BWV 865
47 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga V in D Major, BWV 850
48 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga XXIV in B minor, BWV 869
49 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga IX in E Major, BWV 854
50 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga IV in C-Sharp minor, BWV 849
51 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga XIII in F-Sharp Major, BWV 858
52 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga VIII in D-Sharp minor, BWV 853
53 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga XVII in A-Flat Major, BWV 862
54 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga XII in F minor, BWV 857
55 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga XXI in B-Flat Major, BWV 866
56 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga XVI in G minor, BWV 861
57 Bach, J S: Præludium & Fuga II in C minor, BWV 847