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The centerpiece of the Bach collection is a 2015 recording of The Well-Tempered Clavier, the so- called old testament of piano music, a series of 48 preludes and fugues in all of the piano's possible keys. A look at that monumental collection's recorded history could serve as a compendium of piano performance styles through the last 120 years. Unsurprisingly, Biret conforms to none, and perhaps the best way to describe her interpretations is orchestral. As the historically informed Baroque practitioners prescribe, each prelude and fugue certainly has a distinct character, but those long lines emerge with the definition of strings, brass or winds, rich and strident by turn. Trills are mellow and exquisitely shaped, and a wealth of detail is present but never exaggerated. Biret's Bach is a cliff wall to be scaled, a peak to be reached and an aspiration to be achieved. Album Tracks 1. Well-Tempered Clavier Book I~Prelude & Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846 2. Well-Tempered Clavier Book I~Prelude & Fugue No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 847 3. Well-Tempered Clavier Book I~Prelude & Fugue No. 3 in C-sharp Major, BWV 848 4. Well-Tempered Clavier Book I~Prelude & Fugue No. 4 in C-sharp Minor, BWV 849 5. Well-Tempered Clavier Book I~Prelude & Fugue No. 5 in D Major, BWV 850 6. Well-Tempered Clavier Book I~Prelude & Fugue No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 851 7. Well-Tempered Clavier Book I~Prelude & Fugue No. 7 in E-flat Major, BWV 852 8. Well-Tempered Clavier Book I~Prelude & Fugue No. 8 in E-flat Minor, BWV 853 9. Well-Tempered Clavier Book I~Prelude & Fugue No. 9 in E Major, BWV 854 10. Well-Tempered Clavier Book I~Prelude & Fugue No. 10 in E Minor, BWV 855 11. Well-Tempered Clavier Book I~Prelude & Fugue No. 11 in F Major, BWV 856 12. Well-Tempered Clavier Book I~Prelude & Fugue No. 12 in F Minor, BWV 857 13. Well-Tempe
