J. S. Bach: Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I Cédric Pescia

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I:
• 1 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. I C-Dur, BWV 846 01:51
• 2 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. I C-Dur, BWV 846 02:11
• 3 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. II C-Moll, BWV 847 01:26
• 4 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. II C-Moll, BWV 847 01:38
• 5 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. III Cis-Dur, BWV 848 01:06
• 6 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. III Cis-Dur, BWV 848 02:12
• 7 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. IV Cis-Moll, BWV 849 03:08
• 8 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. IV Cis-Moll, BWV 849 04:29
• 9 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. V D-Dur, BWV 850 02:22
• 10 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. V D-Dur, BWV 850 02:05
• 11 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. VI D-Moll, BWV 851 01:23
• 12 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. VI D-Moll, BWV 851 02:16
• 13 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. VII Es-Dur, BWV 852 03:28
• 14 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. Es-Dur VII, BWV 852 01:34
• 15 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. VIII Es-Moll, BWV 853 03:15
• 16 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. VIII Dis-Moll, BWV 853 06:04
• 17 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. IX E-Dur, BWV 854 01:25
• 18 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. IX E-Dur, BWV 854 01:11
• 19 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. X E-Moll, BWV 855 02:21
• 20 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. X E-Moll, BWV 855 01:04
• 21 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. XI F-Dur, BWV 856 00:54
• 22 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. XI F-Dur, BWV 856 01:14
• 23 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. XII F-Moll, BWV 857 02:14
• 24 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. XII F-Moll, BWV 857 05:24
• 25 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. XIII Fis-Dur, BWV 858 01:20
• 26 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. XIII Fis-Dur, BWV 858 01:40
• 27 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. XIV S-Moll, BWV 859 01:01
• 28 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. XIV S-Moll, BWV 859 03:13
• 29 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. XV G-Dur, BWV 860 00:54
• 30 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. XV G-Dur, BWV 860 02:47
• 31 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. XVI G-Moll, BWV 861 02:07
• 32 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. XVI G-Moll, BWV 861 02:14
• 33 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. XVII As-Dur, BWV 862 01:17
• 34 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. XVII As-Dur, BWV 8622 03:02
• 35 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. XVIII Gis-Moll, BWV 863 02:03
• 36 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. XVIII Gis-Moll, BWV 863 03:39
• 37 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. XIX A-Dur, BWV 864 01:17
• 38 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. XIX A-Dur, BWV 864 02:10
• 39 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. XX A-Moll, BWV 865 00:55
• 40 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. XX A-Moll, BWV 865 04:30
• 41 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. XXI B-Dur, BWV 866 01:14
• 42 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. XXI B-Dur, BWV 866 01:34
• 43 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. XXII B-Moll, BWV 867 02:55
• 44 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. XXII B-Moll, BWV 867 03:30
• 45 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. XXIII H-Dur, BWV 868 00:58
• 46 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. XXIII H-Dur, BWV 868 02:38
• 47 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Präludium Nr. XXIV H-Moll, BWV 869 06:34
• 48 Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I: Fuge Nr. XXIV H-Moll, BWV 869 07:04
• Total Runtime 01:56:51

Info for J. S. Bach: Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I

Robert Schumann, who revered Johann Sebastian Bach, recommended that young pianists should make the two books of ‘The Well-Tempered Clavier’ their ‘daily bread’. The collection is indeed familiar to many from an early age but most performers (pianists, harpsichordists and even organists) only give it in concert and record it after ‘moulding’ that bread every day in the secrecy of their practice rooms.

Musicians tackle ‘The Well-Tempered Clavier’ in the same way as actors play Shakespeare’s ‘Lear’ or singers perform Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’, once they have reached the appropriate age. The cycle is testing for the fingers but perhaps even more so for the brain: these stylistically differentiated preludes and complex fugues must be given an overall coherence that does not diminish the singularity of their parts. Each component of ‘The Well-Tempered Clavier’ can be one thing and its opposite.

This is precisely what the forty-two-year-old Swiss pianist Cédric Pescia demonstrates by setting out in a few moments an ‘acoustic theatre’. The sound is a beautifully lustrous bronze, profound, conducive to minute gradations of density, texture and articulation and the pedalling is subtle. The long fugues find in this noble but never haughty playing one of their most beautiful incarnations on the disc: the final fugue of the First Book, in the same tormented B minor as the ‘Kyrie’ of Bach’s great Mass, shows this with the blinding evidence that can be achieved only by the great artists.

Cédric Pescia, piano

Cédric Pescia
pianist of dual French and Swiss nationality, was born in Lausanne. He studied with Christian Favre at the Conservatoire de Musique in Lausanne, later with Dominique Merlet at the Conservatoire de Musique in Geneva where he earned a Premier Prix de Virtuosité with honors and completed his studies with Klaus Hellwig at the Universität der Künste in Berlin.

In addition he has studied with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Daniel Barenboim, Henri Barda, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Ivan Klansky, Christian Zacharias, Ilan Gronich and with the Alban Berg Quartet. From 2003 until 2006 he was invited to attend the famous International Piano Academy, Lake Como (Italy) where he worked with Dimitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher, William Grant Naboré, Menahem Pressler, Andreas Staier and Fou Ts´ong.

Cédric Pescia was the brilliant First Prize Winner (Gold Medalist) at the 2002 Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition in Salt Lake City (USA).

Concert tours have taken him throughout Europe, China, South America, North Africa and in the USA. He has performed at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Hamburg Laieszhalle, the Mozarteum Salzburg, Carnegie Hall New York, Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, Wigmore Hall London, Tonhalle Zürich, Vienna Konzerthaus and has appeared in leading music festivals such as: Prague Spring Festival, Lucerne Festival, Menuhin Festival-Gstaad, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Davos Festival, Festival de Radio France et Montpellier, Les Muséiques Basel and Schubertiade Hohenems.

His orchestral appearances have been with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, the Utah Symphony, the Festival Strings of Luzern, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, the Ensemble Oriol Berlin, the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, the Camerata Bern, the Basler Kammerorchester, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, the Göttinger Symphonie Orchester and the Orchestre National de Lille.

In addition to his activities as a soloist, his love for chamber music regularly leads to performances with other eminent musicians. For many years Cédric Pescia has been working in close collaboration with violinist Nurit Stark.

He is founding member and artistic director of the Lausanne chamber music series Ensemble enScène.

In 2005 and 2007 he served as a jury member in the Clara Haskil Competition in Vevey.

He is giving master classes in the USA and in Europe, a.o. at the prestigious Accademia Pianistica Internazionale \"Incontri col Maestro\" in Imola, Italy.

In 2012 he was appointed professor for piano at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève.

In 2007, Cédric Pescia was honoured with the Prix Musique de la Fondation Vaudoise pour la culture. He was a also a prizewinner at the Bourse de la Fondation Leenaards in Lausanne. The duo Nurit Stark (violin) and Cédric Pescia is supported by the Forberg-Schneider Foundation.

For Claves Records, he has recorded Bach\'s Goldberg Variations, Schumann\'s complete works for piano solo (vol. 2 + vol. 5) and a CD of French music featuring Couperin, Messiaen and Debussy, F. Busoni\'s and G. Enescu\'s Violin and Piano Sonatas with Nurit Stark, as well as Beethoven\'s Piano sonatas op. 109, 110 and 111, six CDs which were unanimously acclaimed by the critics. His new recording John Cage : Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano is released by Aeon.

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