Utwory na płycie:

• No. 5 in D major, BWV 874 [Version A] - Fugue V à 4
• No. 6 in D minor, BWV 875 [Version A] - Prelude VI
• No. 6 in D minor, BWV 875 [Version A] - Fugue VI à 3
• No. 7 in E flat major, BWV 876 - Prelude VII
• No. 7 in E flat major, BWV 876 - Fugue VII à 4
• No. 8 in D sharp minor, BWV 877 - Prelude VIII
• No. 8 in D sharp minor, BWV 877 - Fugue VIII à 4
• No. 9 in E major, BWV 878 [Version A] - Prelude IX
• No. 9 in E major, BWV 878 [Version A] - Fugue IX à 4
• No. 10 in E minor, BWV 879 [Version B] - Prelude X
• No. 1 in C major, BWV 870 [Version B] - Prelude I in C minor
• No. 10 in E minor, BWV 879 [Version B] - Fugue X à 3
• No. 11 in F major, BWV 880 [Version A] - Prelude
• No. 11 in F major, BWV 880 [Version A] - Fugue XI à 3
• No. 12 in F minor, BWV 881 [Version B] - Prelude
• No. 12 in F minor, BWV 881 [Version B] - Fugue XII à 3
• No. 1 in C major, BWV 870 [Version B] - Fugue I à 3 in C Major
• No. 2 in C minor, BWV 871 [Version A] - Prelude II in C minor
• No. 2 in C minor, BWV 871 [Version A] - Fugue II à 4 in C Minor
• Fugue II à 4 in C Minor - Prelude III
• Fugue II à 4 in C Minor - Fugue III à 3
• No. 4 in C sharp minor, BWV 873 [Version B] - Prelude IV
• No. 4 in C sharp minor, BWV 873 [Version B] - Fugue IV à 3
• No. 5 in D major, BWV 874 [Version A] - Prelude V
• No. 17 in A flat major, BWV 886 - Fugue XVII à 4
• No. 18 in G sharp minor, BWV 887 - Prelude XVIII
• No. 18 in G sharp minor, BWV 887 - Fugue XVIII à 3
• No. 19 in A major, BWV 888 [Version A] - Prelude XIX
• No. 19 in A major, BWV 888 [Version A] - Fugue XIX à 3
• No. 20 in A minor, BWV 889 [Version B] - Prelude XX
• No. 20 in A minor, BWV 889 [Version B] - Fugue XX à 3
• No. 21 in B flat major, BWV 890 [Version A] - Prelude XXI
• No. 21 in B flat major, BWV 890 [Version A] - Fugue XXI à 3
• No. 22 in B flat minor, BWV 891 [Version A] - Prelude XXII
• No. 13 in F sharp major, BWV 882 [Version A] - Prelude XIII
• No. 22 in B flat minor, BWV 891 [Version A] - Fugue XXII à 4
• No. 23 in B major, BWV 892 [Version A] - Prelude XXIII
• No. 23 in B major, BWV 892 [Version A] - Fugue XXIII à 4
• No. 24 in B minor, BWV 893 [Version A] - Prelude XXIV
• No. 24 in B minor, BWV 893 [Version A] - Fugue XXIV à 3
• No. 13 in F sharp major, BWV 882 [Version A] - Fugue XIII à 3
• No. 14 in F sharp minor, BWV 883 - Prelude XIV
• No. 14 in F sharp minor, BWV 883 - Fugue XIV à 3
• No. 15 in G major, BWV 884 [Version A] - Prelude XV
• No. 15 in G major, BWV 884 [Version A] - Fugue XV à 3
• No. 16 in G minor, BWV 885 [Version A] - Prelude XVI Largo
• No. 16 in G minor, BWV 885 [Version A] - Fugue XVI à 4
• No. 17 in A flat major, BWV 886 - Prelude XVII

CD 1:
No. 1 in C major, BWV 870 [Version B]
No. 2 in C minor, BWV 871 [Version A]
No. 3 in C sharp major, BWV 872 [Version B]
No. 4 in C sharp minor, BWV 873 [Version B]
No. 5 in D major, BWV 874 [Version A]
No. 6 in D minor, BWV 875 [Version A]
No. 7 in E flat major, BWV 876 [Version B]
No. 8 in D sharp minor, BWV 877 [Version A]
No. 9 in E major, BWV 878 [Version A]
No. 10 in E minor, BWV 879 [Version B]
No. 11 in F major, BWV 880 [Version A]
No. 12 in F minor, BWV 881 [Version B]

CD 2:
No. 13 in F sharp major, BWV 882 [Version A]
No. 14 in F sharp minor, BWV 883 [Version A]
No. 15 in G major, BWV 884 [Version A]
No. 16 in G minor, BWV 885 [Version A]
No. 17 in A flat major, BWV 886 [Version B]
No. 18 in G sharp minor, BWV 887 [Version A]
No. 19 in A major, BWV 888 [Version A]
No. 20 in A minor, BWV 889 [Version B]
No. 21 in B flat major, BWV 890 [Version A]
No. 22 in B flat minor, BWV 891 [Version A]
No. 23 in B major, BWV 892 [Version A]
No. 24 in B minor, BWV 893 [Version A]

Version A - after the original manuscript, London (1742)
Version B - after the tradition by Johann Christoph Altnichols (1744)

Das Wohltemperirte Clavier, a collection of preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys completed by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1722, was clearly modelled 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 its second 1715 edition. Bach took Fischer’s original layout of 20 keys and expanded it to a total of 24, thereby creating the first self-contained collection of music written for the entire corpus of existing keys.

Bach, who, on the handwritten title page of the beautiful copy now preserved in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek (Mus. Ms. P 415), signed as Hochf. Anhalt-Cöthenischen Capel-Meistern und Directore derer Cammer Musiquen, clearly indicated his purpose in composing this incomparable collection: “for the profit of musical youth desirous of learning, and especially for the pastime of those already skilled in this study.”

In recent years a clearer picture has emerged of Bach’s instrumentarium, and one can infer that in the last ten years of his life he had a Silbermann fortepiano at his disposal. By then he regarded it as a valid alternative to the harpsichord, the clavichord, and the Lautenwerck, which, taken together, embodied the generic term Clavier. Silbermann, for his part, relied on Bach’s assistance as Cantor to help him sell his valuable instruments (a fortepiano cost as much as a Capellmeister’s annual salary!), and he was entirely indebted to Bartolomeo Cristofori for the design of his fortepiano mechanism, which he later applied to the robust makeup of harpsichords of late German build.

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Recording: March 2017, Santuario della Beata Vergine Maria del Monte Carmelo (Colletto, Roletto, Pinerolo), Turin, Italy. Instrument: Copy by Kerstin Schwarz of the fortepiano built by Gottfried Silbermann in 1749.