Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier Friedrich Gulda

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Album info

Album-Release:
1972

HRA-Release:
24.08.2015

Label: MPS Classical

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

Artist: Friedrich Gulda

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)

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  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Erster Teil (BWV 846 – 869):
  • 1Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 84605:15
  • 2Prelude and Fugue No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 84704:24
  • 3Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C-Sharp Major, BWV 84803:29
  • 4Prelude and Fugue No. 4 in C-Sharp Major, BWV 84905:48
  • 5Prelude and Fugue No. 5 in D Major, BWV 85003:08
  • 6Prelude and Fugue No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 85103:32
  • 7Prelude and Fugue No. 7 in E-Flat Major, BWV 85205:16
  • 8Prelude and Fugue No. 8 in E-Flat Minor, BWV 85310:33
  • 9Prelude and Fugue No. 9 in E Major, BWV 85402:28
  • 10Prelude and Fugue No. 10 in E Minor, BWV 85503:21
  • 11Prelude and Fugue No. 11 in F Major, BWV 85602:09
  • 12Prelude and Fugue No. 12 in F Minor, BWV 85706:59
  • 13Prelude and Fugue No. 13 in F-Sharp Major, BWV 85804:06
  • 14Prelude and Fugue No. 14 in F-Sharp Minor, BWV 85905:23
  • 15Prelude and Fugue No. 15 in G Major, BWV 86003:25
  • 16Prelude and Fugue No. 16 in G Minor, BWV 86104:23
  • 17Prelude and Fugue No. 17 in A-Flat Major, BWV 86204:29
  • 18Prelude and Fugue No. 18 in G-Sharp Minor, BWV 86306:56
  • 19Prelude and Fugue No. 19 in A Major, BWV 86402:31
  • 20Prelude and Fugue No. 20 in A Minor, BWV 86505:26
  • 21Prelude and Fugue No. 21 in B-Flat Major, BWV 86602:30
  • 22Prelude and Fugue No. 22 in B-Flat Minor, BWV 86706:48
  • 23Prelude and Fugue No. 23 in B Major, BWV 86804:29
  • 24Prelude and Fugue No. 24 in B Minor, BWV 86916:38
  • Zweiter Teil (BWV 870 – 893):
  • 25Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 87004:04
  • 26Prelude and Fugue No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 87106:56
  • 27Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C-Sharp Major, BWV 87203:40
  • 28Prelude and Fugue No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor, BWV 87305:27
  • 29Prelude and Fugue No. 5 in D Major, BWV 87408:06
  • 30Prelude and Fugue No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 87503:12
  • 31Prelude and Fugue No. 7 in E-Flat Majorr, BWV 87605:45
  • 32Prelude and Fugue No. 8 in D-Sharp Minor, BWV 87709:11
  • 33Prelude and Fugue No. 9 in E Major, BWV 87809:11
  • 34Prelude and Fugue No. 10 in E Minor, BWV 87905:06
  • 35Prelude and Fugue No. 11 in F Major, BWV 88004:08
  • 36Prelude and Fugue No. 12 in F Minor, BWV 88108:30
  • 37Prelude and Fugue No. 13 in F-Sharp Major, BWV 88205:47
  • 38Prelude and Fugue No. 14 in F-Sharp Minor, BWV 88310:31
  • 39Prelude and Fugue No. 15 in G Major, BWV 88405:05
  • 40Prelude and Fugue No. 16 in G Minor, BWV 88505:45
  • 41Prelude and Fugue No. 17 in A-Flat Major, BWV 88606:43
  • 42Prelude and Fugue No. 18 in G-Sharp Minor, BWV 88708:24
  • 43Prelude and Fugue No. 19 in A Major, BWV 88803:55
  • 44Prelude and Fugue No. 20 in A Minor, BWV 88906:40
  • 45Prelude and Fugue No. 21 in B-Flat Major, BWV 89008:52
  • 46Prelude and Fugue No. 22 in B-Flat Minor, BWV 89111:26
  • 47Prelude and Fugue No. 23 in B Major, BWV 89205:26
  • 48Prelude and Fugue No. 24 in B Minor, BWV 89305:26
  • Total Runtime04:40:42

Info for Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier

In Friedrich Gulda’s recording of The Well-Tempered Clavier two significant events in the history of Western music meet. One of these is this exceptional recording. It originates in the years of 1972/73, the high- and endpoint of the collaboration between the Austrian pianist and the sound-sorcerer from Villingen, Germany, Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer. Since 1969, Gulda had been using the Black Forest studio’s state-of-the-art technical capabilities for the recording of the music cycles of Beethoven, Debussy, and Mozart, as well as his own work. You can still see the marks left from where the instrument had been precisely placed to the millimeter so that the piano’s sonority could be optimally captured. All of this is what makes Golda’s interpretations so bold and meaningful to this day. The optimal microphone placements on the piano strings reduces the distance between Bach’s work and the audience, allowing the listener to physically experience the music. The Bösendorfer sounds out in full stereo; its extreme dynamics creates a wide emotional spectrum, ranging from delicate intimacy to unbridled extroversion. The other epic event is the work itself: although it may be taken for granted today, Johann Sebastian Bach created a cycle of works played through all 24 major and minor keys that, with its development of equally tempered tuning, was a quantum spring forward. At the same time, Bach underlined the cosmic dimension of his creation by intentionally leaving open the choice of which “clavier” the piece should be played on (at that time, Clavichord, Cembalo and organ). Independent of the mechanics, this underscores the divine substance of his music. Gulda died in 2000. This new release of the Gulda recordings appears on the anniversary of the pianist’s 85th birthday. It especially takes into account the encounter between two geniuses; this is a direct copy from the master tape, the first time since the seventies that the true tonal color of the original has been produced, without any “corrections” of the dynamics.

Finally, the listener can once again experience Gulda’s Bach the way Gulda had conceived it – as eruptive as that timeless meeting of spirit and emotion over 250 years ago.

Friedrich Gulda, piano

Analog-Digitally remastered

Engineered by Christof Stickel, msm Studios, Munich
Mastering by Dirk Sommer

Digitally remastered

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