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3 Compact Discs CDA66441/3

£34.98

Recorded in London on 24-27 September 1990
Recording Engineer
ANTONY HOWELL
Recording Producer
ARTHUR JOHNSON
Design
TERRY SHANNON
Executive Producers
CECILE KELLY
EDWARD PERRY
© Hyperion Records Ltd, London, MCMXCI

Duration: 165'53
DDD
Front illustration: Frontispiece for Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman, by Alexander Nikolayevich Benois (1870-1960)

Contents:

24 Preludes and Fugues for solo piano, op 87 (1950-51)

COMPACT DISC 1 [57'30]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 1 IN C MAJOR [4'57]
  1. Prelude [2'28]
  2. Fugue [2'27]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 2 IN A MINOR [2'18]

  3. Prelude [0'56]
  4. Fugue [1'21]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 3 IN G MAJOR [4'12]

  5. Prelude [1'56]
  6. Fugue [2'07]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 4 IN E MINOR [8' 53]

  7. Prelude [3'11]
  8. Fugue [5'40]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 5 IN D MAJOR [3'40]

  9. Prelude [1'44]
  10. Fugue [1'55]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 6 IN B MINOR [9'15]

  11. Prelude [2'20]
  12. Fugue [6'52]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 7 IN A MAJOR [3'28]

  13. Prelude [1'19]
  14. Fugue [2' 07]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 8 IN F SHARP MINOR [8'38]

  15. Prelude [1'15]
  16. Fugue [7'21]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 9 IN E MAIOR [4'11]

  17. Prelude [2'33]
  18. Fugue [1'37]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 10 IN C SHARP MINOR [6'42]

  19. Prelude [1'46]
  20. Fugue [4'55]

COMPACT DISC 2 [54'56]
    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 11 IN B MAJOR [3'55]
  1. Prelude [1'24]
  2. Fugue [2'31]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 12 IN G SHARP MINOR [9'03]

  3. Prelude [5'13]
  4. Fugue [3'50]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 13 IN F SHARP MAIOR [10'05]

  5. Prelude [2'28]
  6. Fugue [7'34]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 14 IN E FLAT MINOR [7'17]

  7. Prelude [4'45]
  8. Fugue [2'31]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 15 IN D FLAT MAJOR [5'08]

  9. Prelude [3'13]
  10. Fugue [1'55]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 16 IN B FLAT MINOR [12'44]

  11. Prelude [3'12]
  12. Fugue [9'24]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 17 IN A FLAT MAJOR [5'50]

  13. Prelude [1'46]
  14. Fugue [4'04]
COMPACT DISC 3 [53'27]
    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 18 IN F MINOR [5'52]
  1. Prelude [3'05]
  2. Fugue [2'45]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 19 IN E FLAT MAIOR [4'45]

  3. Prelude [2'26]
  4. Fugue [2'18]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 20 IN C MINOR [10'11]

  5. Prelude [3'54]
  6. Fugue [6'16]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 21 IN B FLAT MAJOR [4'30]

  7. Prelude [1'31]
  8. Fugue [2'58]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 22 IN G MINOR [8'13]

  9. Prelude [3'14]
  10. Fugue [4'57]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 23 IN F MAJOR [6'48]

  11. Prelude [3'42]
  12. Fugue [3'04]

    PRELUDE AND FUGUE NO 24 IN D MINOR [12'15]

  13. Prelude [3'53]
  14. Fugue [8'19]

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'The recording is clear and atmospheric, and the playing has power, grandeur, character, intellectual clarity and unforced intensity' (Gramophone)

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'Where this work is concerned, as in her playing of much else, she has rightly been called his High Priestess' (Piano)

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