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Bach Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1

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Composer or Director: Johann Sebastian Bach

Label: Naxos Historical

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Catalogue Number: 8 110653/4

Bach Well Tempered Clavier, Fischer Book 2

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: F minor, BWV881 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: F sharp, BWV882 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: F sharp minor, BWV883 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: G, BWV884 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: G minor, BWV885 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: A flat, BWV886 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: G sharp minor, BWV887 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: A, BWV888 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: A minor, BWV889 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: B flat, BWV890 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: B flat minor, BWV891 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: B, BWV892 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: B minor, BWV893 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: C, BWV870 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: C minor, BWV871 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: C sharp, BWV872 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: C sharp minor, BWV873 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: D, BWV874 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: D minor, BWV875 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: E flat, BWV876 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: D sharp minor, BWV877 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: E, BWV878 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: E minor, BWV879 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: F, BWV880 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer

Composer or Director: Johann Sebastian Bach

Label: Naxos Historical

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 107

Mastering:

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Catalogue Number: 8 110651/2

Bach Well Tempered Clavier Fischer

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: B, BWV868 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: B minor, BWV869 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: C, BWV846 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: C minor, BWV847 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: C sharp, BWV848 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: C sharp minor, BWV849 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: D, BWV850 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: D minor, BWV851 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: E flat, BWV852 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: E flat minor/D sharp minor, BWV853 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: E, BWV854 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: E minor, BWV855 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: F, BWV856 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: F minor, BWV857 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: F sharp, BWV858 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: F sharp minor, BWV859 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: G, BWV860 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: G minor, BWV861 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: A flat, BWV862 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: G sharp minor, BWV863 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: A, BWV864 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: A minor, BWV865 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: B flat, BWV866 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: B flat minor, BWV867 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer, Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Edwin Fischer’s 1933-36 HMV set of Bach’s 48 was the first recording by a pianist of the set, and it remains the finest of all. Fischer might well have agreed with Andras Schiff that Bach is the ‘most romantic of all composers’, for his superfine musicianship seems to live and breathe in another world, ether or ambience. His sonority is as ravishing as it is apt, never beautiful for its own sake, and graced with a pedal technique so subtle that it results in a light and shade, a subdued sparkle or pointed sense of repartee that eludes lesser artists. Again, no matter what complexity Bach throws at him, Fischer resolves it with a disarming poise and limpidity, qualities as natural as they are profound.
All this is a far cry from, say, Glenn Gould’s egotism in the 48, or the sort of performances that can make genius a pejorative term. Fischer – a blessedly naive artist who told his students to forget ‘the material, working world and be on intimate terms with trees, clouds and winds’ – showed a deep humility before great art, making the singling out of one or another of his performances an impertinence. Impossible, however, not to mention in passing his ethereal start to the set (that light, bouncing staccato above a singing bass-line in No 1), or the disconsolate, phantom yet ordered voice he achieves in No 4. The contrapuntal flow of No 7 – initially grand, then reflective and finally free-wheeling – is realised to perfection, and what a virtuoso play of the elements he recreates in No 15!
Turning to Book 2, you could hardly imagine a more seraphic utterance in No 3, later contrasted with the most skittish allegro reply. The list goes on indefinitely, dissolving the supposed barriers between one form of music and another: ‘baroque’, ‘classical’, ‘romantic’, even ‘impressionist’, become terms of convenience rather than accuracy once you have heard Fischer’s Bach. He did, indeed, possess a touch with ‘the strength and softness of a lion’s velvet paw’, and I know of few recordings from which today’s generation of pianists could learn so much; could absorb by osmosis, so to speak, his way of transforming a supposedly learned tome into a fountain of limitless magic and resource. Here, then, is Fischer at his most sublimely poised and unruffled, offered at Naxos’s bargain price in beautifully restored sound
Bach Well Tempered Clavier, Fischer Book 2 Bach Well Tempered Clavier Fischer

Bach (The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: F minor, BWV881

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: F sharp, BWV882

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: F sharp minor, BWV883

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: G, BWV884

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: G minor, BWV885

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: A flat, BWV886

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: G sharp minor, BWV887

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: A, BWV888

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: A minor, BWV889

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: B flat, BWV890

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: B flat minor, BWV891

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: B, BWV892

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: B minor, BWV893

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: C, BWV870

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: C minor, BWV871

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: C sharp, BWV872

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: C sharp minor, BWV873

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: D, BWV874

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: D minor, BWV875

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: E flat, BWV876

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: D sharp minor, BWV877

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: E, BWV878

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: E minor, BWV879

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: F, BWV880

Bach Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: B, BWV868

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: B minor, BWV869

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: C, BWV846

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: C minor, BWV847

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: C sharp, BWV848

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: C sharp minor, BWV849

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: D, BWV850

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: D minor, BWV851

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: E flat, BWV852

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: E flat minor/D sharp minor, BWV853

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: E, BWV854

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: E minor, BWV855

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: F, BWV856

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: F minor, BWV857

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: F sharp, BWV858

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: F sharp minor, BWV859

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: G, BWV860

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: G minor, BWV861

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: A flat, BWV862

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: G sharp minor, BWV863

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: A, BWV864

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: A minor, BWV865

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: B flat, BWV866

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movement: B flat minor, BWV867

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