Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier - Book 2 (BWV 870-893)

Description

Edited by Baroque scholar Judith Schneider, with expert fingering suggestions by Stuttgart Professor Maria Sofianska, the long-awaited Volume II of Bach's essential masterpiece contains 30 pages of extensive research and insight into Baroque music. Painstakingly compared with the most important autograph and manuscript sources, this comprehensive edition includes thorough analysis of written and improvised ornamentation, a discussion of period keyboard instruments, insight into pedaling, touch, tempo and rhythm issues, as well as a discussion of preludes and fugues. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance.

Pieces

• Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 870
• Prelude and Fugue in E Minor, BWV 879
• Prelude and Fugue in F Major, BWV 880
• Prelude and Fugue in F Minor, BWV 881
• Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp Major, BWV 882
• Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp Minor, BWV 883
• Prelude and Fugue in G Major, BWV 884
• Prelude and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 885
• Prelude and Fugue in A-flat Major, BWV 886
• Prelude and Fugue in G-sharp Minor, BWV 887
• Prelude and Fugue in A Major, BWV 888
• Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 871
• Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 889
• Prelude and Fugue in B-flat Major, BWV 890
• Prelude and Fugue in B-flat Minor, BWV 891
• Prelude and Fugue in B Major, BWV 892
• Prelude and Fugue in B Minor, BWV 893
• Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp Major, BWV 872
• Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp Minor, BWV 873
• Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 874
• Prelude and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 875
• Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major, BWV 876
• Prelude and Fugue in D-sharp Minor, BWV 877
• Prelude and Fugue in E Major, BWV 878