Tag: Prelude & Fugue 25 C

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  A question of interpretation

  February 17, 2014

  Keyboard, Solo

  Bach, Prelude & Fugue 25 C, Well-tempered Klavier

  Here’s the beginning of Book II of the Well-Tempered Clavier (the second Prelude in C) and below it you can listen to a performance of these three bars (or thereabouts) by seven of the most famous Bach interpreters: Here’s Bach for every taste from high romance to strict puritanism. Which do you prefer? Come along on…