巴哈:平均律1.2冊全集 塞德里克.皮夏 鋼琴

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 Cedric 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.

CD1
1. Pr?ludium C-Dur BWV 846
2. Fuge C-Dur BWV 846
3. Pr?ludium c-moll BWV 847
4. Fuge c-moll BWV 847
5. Pr?ludium Cis-Dur BWV 848
6. Fuge Cis-Dur BWV 848
7. Pr?ludium cis-moll BWV 849
8. Fuge cis-moll BWV 849
9. Pr?ludium D-Dur BWV 850
10. Fuge D-Dur BWV 850
11. Pr?ludium d-moll BWV 851
12. Fuge d-moll BWV 851
13. Pr?ludium Es-Dur BWV 852
14. Fuge Es-Dur BWV 852
15. Pr?ludium dis-moll BWV 853
16. Fuge dis-moll BWV 853
17. Pr?ludium E-Dur BWV 854
18. Fuge E-Dur BWV 854
19. Pr?ludium e-moll BWV 855
20. Fuge e-moll BWV 855
21. Pr?ludium F-Dur BWV 856
22. Fuge F-Dur BWV 856
23. Pr?ludium f-moll BWV 857
24. Fuge f-moll BWV 857

CD2
1. Pr?ludium Fis-Dur BWV 858
2. Fuge Fis-Dur BWV 858
3. Pr?ludium fis-moll BWV 859
4. Fuge fis-moll BWV 859
5. Pr?ludium G-Dur BWV 860
6. Fuge G-Dur BWV 860
7. Pr?ludium g-moll BWV 861
8. Fuge g-moll BWV 861
9. Pr?ludium As-Dur BWV 862
10. Fuge As-Dur BWV 862
11. Pr?ludium gis-moll BWV 863
12. Fuge gis-moll BWV 863
13. Pr?ludium A-Dur BWV 864
14. Fuge A-Dur BWV 864
15. Pr?ludium a-moll BWV 865
16. Fuge a-moll BWV 865
17. Pr?ludium B-Dur BWV 866
18. Fuge B-Dur BWV 866
19. Pr?ludium b-moll BWV 867
20. Fuge b-moll BWV 867
21. Pr?ludium H-Dur BWV 868
22. Fuge H-Dur BWV 868
23. Pr?ludium h-moll BWV 869
24. Fuge h-moll BWV 869

CD3
1. Pr?ludium C-Dur BWV 870
2. Fuge C-Dur BWV 870
3. Pr?ludium c-moll BWV 871
4. Fuge c-moll BWV 871
5. Pr?ludium Cis-Dur BWV 872
6. Fuge Cis-Dur BWV 872
7. Pr?ludium cis-moll BWV 873
8. Fuge cis-moll BWV 873
9. Pr?ludium D-Dur BWV 874
10. Fuge D-Dur BWV 874
11. Pr?ludium d-moll BWV 875
12. Fuge d-moll BWV 875
13. Pr?ludium Es-Dur BWV 876
14. Fuge Es-Dur BWV 876
15. Pr?ludium dis-moll BWV 877
16. Fuge dis-moll BWV 877
17. Pr?ludium E-Dur BWV 878
18. Fuge E-Dur BWV 878
19. Pr?ludium e-moll BWV 879
20. Fuge e-moll BWV 879
21. Pr?ludium F-Dur BWV 880
22. Fuge F-Dur BWV 880
23. Pr?ludium f-moll BWV 881
24. Fuge f-moll BWV 881

CD4
1. Pr?ludium Fis-Dur BWV 882
2. Fuge Fis-Dur BWV 882
3. Pr?ludium fis-moll BWV 883
4. Fuge fis-moll BWV 883
5. Pr?ludium G-Dur BWV 884
6. Fuge G-Dur BWV 884
7. Pr?ludium g-moll BWV 885
8. Fuge g-moll BWV 885
9. Pr?ludium As-Dur BWV 886
10. Fuge As-Dur BWV 886
11. Pr?ludium gis-moll BWV 887
12. Fuge gis-moll BWV 887
13. Pr?ludium A-Dur BWV 888
14. Fuge A-Dur BWV 888
15. Pr?ludium a-moll BWV 889
16. Fuge a-moll BWV 889
17. Pr?ludium B-Dur BWV 890
18. Fuge B-Dur BWV 890
19. Pr?ludium b-moll BWV 891
20. Fuge b-moll BWV 891
21. Pr?ludium H-Dur BWV 892
22. Fuge H-Dur BWV 892
23. Pr?ludium h-moll BWV 893
24. Fuge h-moll BWV 893