Over four lecture-concerts, organist and harpsichordist Geneviève Soly tackles the complete 24 preludes and fugues of the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier, from Johann Sebastian Bach, the absolute genius of the Baroque period… and of all others! Here are the six preludes and fugues on this program, or a quarter of the corpus:
Praeludium und Fuga in 4 in C major, BWV 846
Praeludium und Fuga in 3 in C minor, BWV 847
Praeludium und Fuga in 3 en E-Flat major, BWV 847
Praeludium in E-Flat minor and Fuga in 3, BWV 853
Praeludium und Fuga in 3 in B-Flat major, V 866
Praeludium und Fuga in 5 in B-Flat minor, V 867