Name: J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 by Andrew Rangell
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Over the past 20 years, Chicago-born and Boston-based pianist Andrew Rangell has devoted his career to the best and the highest works in the repertoire. From his early recordings of Bach's Goldberg Variations and Beethoven's late sonatas on Dorian to his later recordings of Chopin's mazurkas and Schubert's last sonata on Bridge, Rangell has deliberately sought out the profoundest music for his instrument, and through his commanding technique, prodigious intellect, and consummate artistry has created a series of recordings that stand comparison to the best ever released.
Rangell continued his winning streak with this 2007 two-disc set of Book One of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Naturally, he plays it on a modern piano, a Hamburg Steinway D, to be precise, and naturally, he plays it as a modern pianist, a Juilliard trained virtuoso, to be exact. Not that he abuses, or even much uses, the pedals to sustain a line. For Rangell, clarity is all, and in his hands, everything is clear -- luminously clear. Indeed, his preludes and fugues shine so hard they practically sparkle, the counterpoint unrolling in utterly lucid lines. And through this crystalline clarity, unobstructed by the performer's ego, Bach's music emerges pure and unsullied. Certainly, there have been more beautiful, more propulsive, more virtuosic, and more emotional recordings of the Goldberg Variations on piano, but in terms of sheer musicality, few outmatch Rangell's. Recorded in Boston's Gardner Museum with the performer serving as producer, the digital sound here is clean with a wonderful sense of time and place.

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J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1

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Volume 1

1. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846

2. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846

3. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 847

4. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 847

5. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 3 in C-Sharp Major, BWV 848

6. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 3 in C-Sharp Major, BWV 848

7. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor, BWV 849

8. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor, BWV 849

9. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 5 in D Major, BWV 850

10. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 5 in D Major, BWV 850

11. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 851

12. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 851

13. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 7 in E-Flat Major, BWV 852

14. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 7 in E-Flat Major, BWV 852

15. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 8 in E-Flat Minor, BWV 853

16. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 8 in D-Sharp Minor, BWV 853

17. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 9 in E Major, BWV 854

18. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 9 in E Major, BWV 854

19. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 10 in E Minor, BWV 855

20. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 10 in E Minor, BWV 855

21. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 11 in F Major, BWV 856

22. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 11 in F Major, BWV 856

23. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 12 in F Minor, BWV 857

24. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 12 in F Minor, BWV 857

Volume 2

1. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 13 in F-Sharp Major, BWV 858

2. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 13 in F-Sharp Major, BWV 858

3. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 14 in F-Sharp Minor, BWV 859

4. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 14 in F-Sharp Minor, BWV 859

5. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 15 in G Major, BWV 860

6. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 15 in G Major, BWV 860

7. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 16 in G Minor, BWV 861

8. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 16 in G Minor, BWV 861

9. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 17 in A-Flat Major, BWV 862

10. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 17 in A-Flat Major, BWV 862

11. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 18 in G-Sharp Minor, BWV 863

12. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 18 in G-Sharp Minor, BWV 863

13. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 19 in A Major, BWV 864

14. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 19 in A Major, BWV 864

15. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 20 in A Minor, BWV 865

16. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 20 in A Minor, BWV 865

17. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 21 in B-Flat Major, BWV 866

18. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 21 in B-Flat Major, BWV 866

19. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 22 in B-Flat Minor, BWV 867

20. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 22 in B-Flat Minor, BWV 867

21. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 23 in B Major, BWV 868

22. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 23 in B Major, BWV 868

23. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 24 in B Minor, BWV 869

24. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Fugue No. 24 in B Minor, BWV 869

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