Artist: Masato Suzuki Title: J. S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 Year Of Release: 2025 Label: BIS Genre: Classical Harpsichord Quality: flac lossless (tracks) 24bits - 96.0kHz Total Time: 02:21:25 Total Size: 3.0 gb Tracklist 01. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 870: I. Prelude 02. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 870: II. Fugue 03. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 871: I. Prelude 04. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 871: II. Fugue 05. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in C-Sharp Major, BWV 872: I. Prelude 06. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in C-Sharp Major, BWV 872: II. Fugue 07. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in C-Sharp Minor, BWV 873: I. Prelude 08. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in C-Sharp Minor, BWV 873: II. Fugue 09. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 874: I. Prelude 10. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 874: II. Fugue 11. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 875: I. Prelude 12. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 875: II. Fugue 13. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat Major, BWV 876: I. Prelude 14. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat Major, BWV 876: II. Fugue 15. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in D-Sharp Minor, BWV 877: I. Prelude 16. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in D-Sharp Minor, BWV 877: II. Fugue 17. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in E Major, BWV 878: I. Prelude 18. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in E Major, BWV 878: II. Fugue 19. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in E Minor, BWV 979: I. Prelude 20. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in E Minor, BWV 979: II. Fugue 21. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in F Major, BWV 880: I. Prelude 22. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in F Major, BWV 880: II. Fugue 23. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in F Minor, BWV 881: I. Prelude 24. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in F Minor, BWV 881: II. Fugue 25. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in F-Sharp Major, BWV 882: I. Prelude 26. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in F-Sharp Major, BWV 882: II. Fugue 27. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in F-Sharp Minor, BWV 883: I. Prelude 28. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in F-Sharp Minor, BWV 883: II. Fugue 29. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in G Major, BWV 884: I. Prelude 30. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in G Major, BWV 884: II. Fugue 31. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 885: I. Prelude 32. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 885: II. Fugue 33. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in A-Flat Major, BWV 886: I. Prelude 34. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in A-Flat Major, BWV 886: II. Fugue 35. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in G-Flat Minor, BWV 887: I. Prelude 36. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in G-Flat Minor, BWV 887: II. Fugue 37. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in A Major, BWV 888: I. Prelude 38. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in A Major, BWV 888: II. Fugue 39. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 889: I. Prelude 40. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 889: II. Fugue 41. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in B-Flat Major, BWV 890: I. Prelude 42. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in B-Flat Major, BWV 890: II. Fugue 43. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in B-Flat Minor, BWV 891: I. Prelude 44. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in B-Flat Minor, BWV 891: II. Fugue 45. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in B Major, BWV 892: I. Prelude 46. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in B Major, BWV 892: II. Fugue 47. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in B Minor, BWV 893: I. Prelude 48. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in B Minor, BWV 893: II. Fugue Following his recording of the first book of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier released last year (BIS2621), which was praised as ‘a pleasurable benchmark for anyone seeking a traversal that honours every detail of the music’ (Gramophone), harpsichordist Masato Suzuki now offers us his interpretation of the second book of Bach’s masterly cycle of preludes and fugues. No other works from the baroque period have been as cherished, performed and studied as these collections, the objectives of which were musical, theoretical and didactic. Like the first, the second book of the Well-Tempered Clavier features a prelude and fugue in each of the 12 semitones of the chromatic scale, covering all of the 24 major and minor modes. Produced almost twenty years after the first book, this collection is a sort of follow-up. Though less frequently heard than its predecessor, it nevertheless contains pieces of great beauty covering a wide stylistic range and demonstrates a mastery of counterpoint that never outweighs emotion, beauty and aesthetics. Occupying a key position in Bach’s output, the second book of the Well-Tempered Clavier points ahead to the major cycles of Bach’s last years and presents ‘sheer masterpieces from beginning to end’, to quote Johann Nikolaus Forkel, the composer’s first biographer