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ROBERT RIEFLING PLAYS BACH
On this page Robert Riefling plays Bach. These are wonderful performances which combine a clean and transparent approach to the complex polyphony of The Welltempered Clavier with subtle drama the iikes of which one rarely hears. His voicing is splendidly elastic causing Bach's Preludes and three and four part fugues to come to life in a beautifully three dimensional fabric.
Just listen to the fifteen versions of the Prelude in C♯ major, BWV 848. Riefling makes a spectacular dialogue of the two voices. Even Gould who is so often my reference for this music leaves me disappointed.
Bach Preludes and Fugues from the Well Tempered Clavier, Book I
3 Prelude in C♯ major, BWV 848
Hariett Cohen
01:28 Edwin Fischer
02:49 Samuil Feinberg
04:17 Mieczyslaw Horszowsky
05:32 Walter Gieseking
06:38 Myra Hess
07:52 Wilhelm Kempff
09:14 Glenn Gould
10:20 Robert Riefling
11:41 Sviatoslav Richter
12:48 Friedrich Gulda
14:00 Rosalyn Tureck
15:19 Wilhelm Backhaus
16:31 Maria Yudina
17:47 Tatiana Nikolayeva
16 in G minor, BWV 861
22 in B♭ minor, BWV 867
Bach Preludes and Fugues from the Well Tempered Clavier, Book II
recorded in 1985
1 in C major, BWV 870
2 in C minor, BWV 871
3 in C♯ major, BWV 872
4 in C♯ minor, BWV 873
5 in D major, BWV 874
6 in D minor, BWV 875
7 in E♭ major, BWV 876
8 in D♯ minor, BWV 877
9 in E major, BWV 878
10 in E minor, BWV 879
11 in F major, BWV 880
12 in F minor, BWV 881
13 in F♯ major, BWV 882
14 in F♯ minor, BWV 883
15 in G major, BWV 884
16 in G minor, BWV 885
17 in A♭ major, BWV 886
18 in G♯ minor, BWV 887
19 in A major, BWV 888
20 in A minor, BWV 889
21 in B♭ major, BWV 890
22 in B♭ minor, BWV 891
23 in B major, BWV 892
24 in B minor, BWV 893
Bach Chromatic Fantasi and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903
For those of you who enjoy murder mysteries, here is my first with a strong musical polemic as background
Murder in the House of the Muse
which is also available as an audiobook.
And this is the more recently published second mystery in the series:
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