Artist: Glenn Gould
Album: Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Preludes & Fugues Nos. 17-24, BWV 862-869
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 1965/2015
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 44,1 kHz
Duration: 35:34
Total Tracks: 16
Total Size: 334 MB

Tracklist:

01. Glenn Gould – Prelude & Fugue No. 17 in A-Flat Major, BWV 862: Prelude (01:24)
02. Glenn Gould – Prelude & Fugue No. 17 in A-Flat Major, BWV 862: Fugue (01:33)
03. Glenn Gould – Prelude & Fugue No. 18 in G-Sharp Minor, BWV 863: Prelude (01:22)
04. Glenn Gould – Prelude & Fugue No. 18 in G-Sharp Minor, BWV 863: Fugue (01:51)
05. Glenn Gould – Prelude & Fugue No. 19 in A Major, BWV 864: Prelude (00:59)
06. Glenn Gould – Prelude & Fugue No. 19 in A Major, BWV 864: Fugue (02:27)
07. Glenn Gould – Prelude & Fugue No. 20 in A Minor, BWV 865: Prelude (01:11)
08. Glenn Gould – Prelude & Fugue No. 20 in A Minor, BWV 865: Fugue (03:27)
09. Glenn Gould – Prelude & Fugue No. 21 in B-Flat Major, BWV 866: Prelude (01:09)
10. Glenn Gould – Prelude & Fugue No. 21 in B-Flat Major, BWV 866: Fugue (01:28)
11. Glenn Gould – Prelude & Fugue No. 22 in B-Flat Minor, BWV 867: Prelude (03:57)
12. Glenn Gould – Prelude & Fugue No. 22 in B-Flat Minor, BWV 867: Fugue (05:13)
13. Glenn Gould – Prelude & Fugue No. 23 in B Major, BWV 868: Prelude (00:59)
14. Glenn Gould – Prelude & Fugue No. 23 in B Major, BWV 868: Fugue (01:38)
15. Glenn Gould – Prelude & Fugue No. 24 in B Minor, BWV 869: Prelude (03:02)
16. Glenn Gould – Prelude & Fugue No. 24 in B Minor, BWV 869: Fugue (03:45)

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Ever in search of the ideal sound: for a while Gould apparently planned to record the Well-Tempered Clavier on a “harpsipiano” (“a neurotic piano that thinks it’s a harpsichord”), but Columbia declined. What remained is a level of polyphonic lucidity and contrapuntal rigor that beggars comparison.