The Essential Collection | Bach Gold & CD (Piano)

A superb selection of the most famous masterpieces by Johann Sebastian Bach and an essential addition to your piano library. Also includes a CD with full performances of every piece.

The Essential Collection series includes favourite pieces of each composer, simplified or shortened slightly where necessary to make them accessible to the intermediate pianist. As well as pieces written specifically for piano, transcriptions of the composer’s best known orchestral compositions or songs are often included as well.

Contents:

• Air on the G String (Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D)
• Aria (Goldberg Variations)
• Badinerie (Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor)
• Fantasia in C minor
• First Movement Allegro Animato from Italian Concerto
• First Movement Allegro from Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G
• Gavotte (Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major)
• Gavotte (French Suite No. 5)
• I Would Beside My Lord (St. Matthew Passion)
• In Tears of Grief (St. Matthew Passion)
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Cantata BWV 147)
• Lie Still, O Sacred Limbs (St. John Passion)
• Minuet (Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor)
• O Sacred Head Surrounded (St. Matthew Passion)
• Passepied No. 1 (Orchestral Suite in C)
• Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major (The Well-tempered Clavier Book I)
• Prelude and Fugue No. 12 in F minor (The Well-tempered Clavier Book 2)
• Prelude and Fugue No. 2 in C minor (The Well-tempered Clavier Book I)
• Sarabande (French Suite No. 1)
• Second Movement Adagio from Concerto No. 5 in F minor
• Second Movement Largo Ma Non Troppo from Concerto for Two Violins
• Sheep May Safely Graze (Cantata BWV 208)
• Sighing, Weeping, Sorrow, Need (Cantata BWV 21)
• Sleepers, Wake, a Voice Is Calling
• Three-part Invention No. 9 in F minor
• Toccata and Fugue in D minor
• Two-part Invention No. 1 in C
• Two-part Invention No. 10 in G Major
• Two-part Invention No. 4 in D minor
• Two-part Invention No. 8 in F
• Variation 18 Canon (Goldberg Variations)
• Variation 19 (Goldberg Variations)