Open Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (2015)
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Our current edition. First verified copy: 48 preludes and fugues in FLAC, item total byte-verified on the box. Read the transfer report.
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The Record
The sequel to the Open Goldberg: the same pianist, the same crowd, the same deal — a studio recording and an open score of Book 1 of the Well-Tempered Clavier, twenty-four preludes and fugues through every key, set free under CC0 in 2015. If the Goldbergs are Bach's great single arch, the 48 are his textbook and his commonplace book at once: the C major prelude that every child has played, the C-sharp minor fugue in five voices, the B minor fugue that closes the book with a subject using all twelve notes. Ishizaka plays them without mannerism, at tempos that let the fugues be heard as conversations.
The recording was funded by 800-odd backers and released with a booklet and liner notes; it is on Wikimedia Commons movement by movement, which is how a good deal of the world now meets this music. A hundred and nine minutes in forty-eight files.
Release details
- Release
- Album / curated collection
- Genre
- Classical / Baroque
- Released
- 2015-03-19
- Source license
- CC0 1.0
- Running time
- 109:08
Recording source: https://music.kimiko-piano.com/album/bach-well-tempered-clavier-book-1
Tracklist
- Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV 846
- Fugue No. 1 in C major, BWV 846
- Prelude No. 2 in C minor, BWV 847
- Fugue No. 2 in C minor, BWV 847
- Prelude No. 3 in C-sharp major, BWV 848
- Fugue No. 3 in C-sharp major, BWV 848
- Prelude No. 4 in C-sharp minor, BWV 849
- Fugue No. 4 in C-sharp minor, BWV 849
- Prelude No. 5 in D major, BWV 850
- Fugue No. 5 in D major, BWV 850
- Prelude No. 6 in D minor, BWV 851
- Fugue No. 6 in D minor, BWV 851
- Prelude No. 7 in E-flat major, BWV 852
- Fugue No. 7 in E-flat major, BWV 852
- Prelude No. 8 in E-flat minor, BWV 853
- Fugue No. 8 in D-sharp minor, BWV 853
- Prelude No. 9 in E major, BWV 854
- Fugue No. 9 in E major, BWV 854
- Prelude No. 10 in E minor, BWV 855
- Fugue No. 10 in E minor, BWV 855
- Prelude No. 11 in F major, BWV 856
- Fugue No. 11 in F major, BWV 856
- Prelude No. 12 in F minor, BWV 857
- Fugue No. 12 in F minor, BWV 857
- Prelude No. 13 in F-sharp major, BWV 858
- Fugue No. 13 in F-sharp major, BWV 858
- Prelude No. 14 in F-sharp minor, BWV 859
- Fugue No. 14 in F-sharp minor, BWV 859
- Prelude No. 15 in G major, BWV 860
- Fugue No. 15 in G major, BWV 860
- Prelude No. 16 in G minor, BWV 861
- Fugue No. 16 in G minor, BWV 861
- Prelude No. 17 in A-flat major, BWV 862
- Fugue No. 17 in A-flat major, BWV 862
- Prelude No. 18 in G-sharp minor, BWV 863
- Fugue No. 18 in G-sharp minor, BWV 863
- Prelude No. 19 in A major, BWV 864
- Fugue No. 19 in A major, BWV 864
- Prelude No. 20 in A minor, BWV 865
- Fugue No. 20 in A minor, BWV 865
- Prelude No. 21 in B-flat major, BWV 866
- Fugue No. 21 in B-flat major, BWV 866
- Prelude No. 22 in B-flat minor, BWV 867
- Fugue No. 22 in B-flat minor, BWV 867
- Prelude No. 23 in B major, BWV 868
- Fugue No. 23 in B major, BWV 868
- Prelude No. 24 in B minor, BWV 869
- Fugue No. 24 in B minor, BWV 869
The copy we chose
Transfer Report
Chosen copy: Internet Archive item bach-well-tempered-clavier-book-1 — 48 FLAC files contiguously numbered 01–48 (… 01 Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV 846.flac … … 48 Fugue No. 24 in B minor, BWV 869.flac), 1.77 GB, 1 h 49 min, with the booklet, liner notes and session photographs.
Checked against the work: 24 preludes and 24 fugues, each its own file, paired in order. A third-party mirror of the project's own release (the 10.9 GB master-tracks-… item holds the raw session masters and is a different product).
Public Domain
Why It's Free
Two layers, both free:
- The composition. Bach, 1722; no copyright anywhere.
- The recording. Released 2015-03-19 under CC0 1.0 Universal, stated by the project (the Open Well-Tempered Clavier release, Kickstarter 2013–15). The Archive.org mirror carries a Public Domain Mark rather than the CC0 URL; the dedication is the project's and is taken from its own release, not the mirror's tag. Performer, producer and backers credited here by house style, not by obligation.
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