Bach Hour playlist for 04/06/2012

Program: 
Bach Hour
  • J.S. Bach
-
Selections from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (BWV 846-869)
from
  • Sergey Schepkin, piano
(
  • Ongaku
)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
-
Selections from the Preludes and Fugues, op. 87
from
  • Alexander Melnikov, piano
(
  • Harmonia Mundi
)
The third and final segment of the Bach-Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues pairing. Shostakovich wrote his set of Preludes and Fugues (op. 87) two centuries after Bach penned his influential Well-Tempered Clavier.
Department: 
Classical