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Petter

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Bach WTC arr. for strings?

on: February 27, 2012, 04:57:18 PM

I've seen some recordings of the inventions and sinfonias for strings, does anyone know if there's been any recordings with strings of the WTC?

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j_menz

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Re: Bach WTC arr. for strings?

Reply #1 on: February 27, 2012, 11:03:20 PM

I'd have thunk it rather defeated the purpose (perhaps alone amongst Bach's works).

That said, Mozart did a string arrangement of the Book 2 Fugues (K405).

EA Forster did an arrangement as well, The Emerson Quartet have a recording available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Bach-Fugues-Emerson-String-Quartet/dp/B0011WMWV6

There are also a few on Youtube as well.

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orangesodaking

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Re: Bach WTC arr. for strings?

Reply #2 on: March 25, 2012, 02:05:14 AM

I have a self-bootlegged recording of the Emerson String Quartet doing Bach's Fugue in E Major (from WTC Bk. II) BWV. 878 as an encore, but that's all I know of for now...

Would you like to hear it?

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