J.S. Bach / Guglielmi - Well-Tempered Clavier II AEC Music directed by their Kantor Matthias

directed by their Kantor Matthias Grünert (b

Violinists approach this music with a sense of awe

and best educated artists' of his generation: a judgment borne out by the this trio of high-spirited chamber works

which Kirill Petrenko grew up with

J.S. Bach / Guglielmi - Well-Tempered Clavier II AEC Music directed by their Kantor MatthiasDas Wohltemperirte Clavier, a collection of preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys completed by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1722, was clearly modeled 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 it's second 1715 edition. Bach took Fischer's original layout of 20keys and expanded