{"product_id":"j-s-bach-bach-easy-listening-piano-classics-cd","title":"J.S. Bach - Bach: Easy Listening Piano Classics [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was most famous during his lifetime as a keyboard virtuoso, principally as an organist but also as a harpsichord player, and he composed a significant body of keyboard music. Many of these works (including transcriptions of his organ music) occupy a central place in the repertoire of pianists both amateur and professional, delighting players and listeners alike to this day. The keyboard music that Bach published falls into four anthologies, each titled Clavier Ãœbung (Keyboard Practice), a rather dry title for what turns out to be an amazing wealth of music! Other works, such as The Well-Tempered Clavier Books I and II, while not published by Bach, circulated widely in manuscript form and have been influential on composers and performers: Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Reger, Schumann, Busoni and many others have fallen under Bach's spell, using his music to develop their own and their students' techniques, and inspired by Bach's extraordinary achievement when composing their own works. Books I and II of The Well-Tempered Clavier each contain preludes and fugues in all the 24 major and minor keys, from C major to B minor, and are collectively known as 'the 48'. Sometimes referred to as the 'Old Testament' of keyboard music (Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas being the 'New'), the preludes explore an astonishing variety of musical forms (including the famous toccata-like Prelude No 1 in C Major from Book I, various dance styles and concerto- or fantasia-like movements) while the fugues range equally broadly from rather formal examples in 'old fashioned' academic style to others based on more up-to-date musical forms. The term 'well-tempered' refers to the system of tuning, new in Bach's day, which allowed music to be played in any key and has become the standard in Western music. Bach's 15 two-part Inventions and 15 three-part Sinfonias BWV 772-801 were originally written as educational pieces for the notebook Bach prepared for his second wife, Anna Magdalena, herself an accomplished musician. During the Baroque period collections of 'overtures' or 'dance suites' were particularly popular. Bach composed three sets of six suites: the so-called 'English' Suites BWV 806-811, the 'French' Suites BWV 812-817 and the keyboard Partitas BWV 825-830. Each suite comprises a basic set of dances based on different national models, Allemande (German), Courante (Italian or French), Sarabande (Spanish\/Latin American) and Gigue (French, based on the British Jig) with additional dances included. The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 presents an aria (that is, a song-like movement) with thirty variations based on the aria's bass line rather than it's tune (Beethoven would work similar wonders with his 'Diabelli' Variations Op. 120). The Italian Concerto BWV 971 was inspired by the exciting new music that was finding it's way north during Bach's lifetime. Bach also transcribed for keyboard several orchestral concertos by Vivaldi and other Italian composers. In addition, several shorter pieces, including the famous hymn Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring and dances from the Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Notebook are included.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eII. Allemande\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eV. Menuet I-II\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInvention No. 14 in B Flat Major, BWV 785\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSinfonia No. 3 in D Major, BWV 789\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSinfonia No. 8 in F Major, BWV 794\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMinuet in G Major, BWV 841\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMinuet in G Major, BWV 843\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eII. Allemande\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eII. Allemande\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIV. Sarabande\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eV. Tempo Di Minuetto\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrelude and Fugue No. 17 in a Flat Major, BWV 862\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrelude and Fugue No. 23 in B Major, BWV 868\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI. Prelude\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eV. Sarabande\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVI. Bourree I and II\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrelude No. 1 in C Major, BWV 939\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrelude in D Major, BWV 925\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrelude in F Major, BWV 927\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSinfonia No. 10 in G Major, BWV 796\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSinfonia No. 11 in G minor, BWV 797\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMinuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 114\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClavierbuchlein for Anna Magdalena Bach, Book 2, BWV Anh. 113-132: Menuet in G minor, BWV Anh. 115\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI. Allemande\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIII. Sarabande\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIV. Gavotte\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eV. Polonaise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVI. Menuet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVariatio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCanone All'unisuono a 1 Clav\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVariatio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCanone Alla Seconda a 1 Clav\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVariatio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea 1 O Vero 2 Clav\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJesu Bleibet Meine Freude (Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring) (Arr. M. Hess for Piano)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrelude and Fugue No. 13 in F Sharp Major, BWV 858\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eV. Gavotte I and II\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIV. Aria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eV. Sarabande\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVI. Menuet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSinfonia No. 1 in C Major, BWV 787\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInvention No. 13 in A minor, BWV 784\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrelude and Fugue No. 19 in a Major, BWV 888\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInvention No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI. Allemande\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIV. Air\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eV. Menuet I\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIII. Courante\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI. [Allegro]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrelude and Fughetta in G Major, BWV 902\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrelude and Fugue No. 7 in E Flat Major, BWV 876\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrelude and Fugue No. 9 in E Major, BWV 878\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eV. Gavotte I and II\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI. Prelude\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eII. Allemande\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eII. Andante\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInvention No. 1 in C Major, BWV 772\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInvention No. 4 in D minor, BWV 775\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInvention No. 5 in E Flat Major, BWV 776\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClavierbuchlein for Anna Magdalena Bach, Book 2, BWV Anh. 113-132: Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 116\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarch in D Major, BWV Anh. 122 (By C.P.E. 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