The Well-Tempered Clavier

One of Britain’s most distinguished harpsichordists, festival guest artist Steven Devine will offer a complete performance of the iconic Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1. Although these preludes and fugues were composed over a period of years, Bach revised many of them and assembled them into a magnificent manuscript copy in the year 1722, just before his move to Leipzig in 1723. Mr. Devine is the principal keyboardist with the Orchestra of the Age ...