Edition no.BA 5192
ISMN: 9790006498727
Volume / Series: BÄRENREITER URTEXT
Editor: Dürr, Alfred
Instrumentation of the work: Piano
Product format: Performance score, Urtext edition
Instrumentation: Harpsichord, Piano
Binding: Paperback
Pages / Format: XI, 163 S. - 31,5 x 24,3 cm
Volume 2 of the „WTC“ has survived in two distinct manuscript traditions. Till now, all printed editions have combined these two traditions into a single hybrid edition, „preferring now this reading, now that one, at the editor’s descretion“ (A. Dürr).
Our volume presents each piece in the version containing the largest number of Bach’s subsequent changes; significant variants from the other version are added as alternatives. A detailed preface by the editor discusses the source material and performance practice, including the execution of ornaments.