Synopses & Reviews
A generous selection of Bach's best-known, most-performed, and most-recorded works for the keyboard, reproduced from the authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition. The 16 works — chiefly preludes, fugues, and fantasias — are reproduced in a format ideal for study and practice, with large noteheads, wide margins, and clear, bold printing.
Synopsis
This superb selection of 16 of Bach's best-known, most-performed and most recorded works for the keyboard, reproduced from the authoritative Bach Gesellschaft edition, offers an exhilarating introduction to the great composer's keyboard virtuosity and his genius for melodic invention.
The works included are Italian Concerto (BWV 971); Overture in the French Style Partita] in B Minor (BWV 903); Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor (BWV 903); Fantasia and Fugue in A Minor (BWV 904); Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor (BWV 906); Fantasia in G Minor (BWV 917); Fantasia on a Rondo in C Minor (BWV 918); Fantasia in C Minor (BWV 919); Prelude Fantasia] in A Minor (BWV 922); Prelude and Fugue in A Minor (BWV 894); Prelude and Fughetta in F Major (BWV 901); Prelude and Fughetta in G Major (BWV 902); Fugue in C Major (BWV 946); Fugue in A Minor (BWV 947); Fugue in D Minor (BWV 948); Fugue in A Major on a Theme of Albinoni (BWV 950).
Sturdy, yet inexpensive, this Dover edition is designed for a lifetime of use. It brings to amateur and professional musicians, to students, and to Bach connoisseurs the composer's choicest keyboard works in a format ideal for study and practice, with large noteheads, wide margins, and clear, bold reproduction.
Synopsis
A generous selection of Bach's best-known, most-performed, and most-recorded works for the keyboard, reproduced from the authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition. These 16 works include preludes, fugues, and fantasias.
Table of Contents
"Clavier-Übung, Part II"
"Italian Concerto (Concerto nach italiänischem Gusto; Concerto in Italian Taste), BWV 971"
Allegro
Andante
Presto
"Overture in the French Style [Partia] in B Minor (Ouvertüre nach französischer Art), BWV 831"
Ouverture
Courante
Gavotte I
Gavotte II
Passepied I
Passepied II
Sarabande
Bourrée I
Bourrée II
Gique
Echo
Other Works
"Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 894"
"Prelude and Fughetta in F Major, BWV 901"
"Prelude and Fugue in G Major, BWV 902"
"Alternative Prelude, BWV 902a"
"Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903"
"Variant of the Opening, BWV 903a"
"Fantasia and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 904"
"Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 906 (Fugue incomplete)"
"Fantasia in G Minor, BWV 917"
"Fantasia on Rondo in C Minor, BWV 918"
"Fantasia in C Minor, BWV 919"
"Prelude [Fantasia] in A Minor, BWV 922"
"Fugue in C Major, BWV 946"
"Fugue in A Minor, BWV 947"
"Fugue in D Minor, BWV 948"
"Fugue in A Major on a Theme of Albinoni, BWV 950"