Track listing

all compositions by J.S. Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...

1. "Fugue in D Minor" from The Art of the Fugue – 2:14
2. "Prelude for Organ Chorale No 1" – 2:38
3. "Aria" from Suite No 3 in D – 3:17
4. "Prelude No 12 in F Minor" from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II (WTC II)" – 2:12
5. "Bourrée II" from The English Suite No 2" – 1:44
6. "Fugue No 2 in C Minor" (WTC I) – 1:16
7. "Fugue No 5 in D" (WTC I) – 1:38
8. "Prelude No 9 in E" (WTC II) – 3:19
9. "Sinfonia" from The Partita No 2 – 4:54
10. "Prelude No 1 in C" (WTC II) – 1:56
11. "Canon" – 1:53
12. "Two Part Invention No 1 in C" – 1:22
13. "Fugue No 5 in D" (WTC II) – 3:15
14. "Vivace" from Concerto for 2 violins, strings & continuo in D minor ("Double"), BWV 1043 – 3:19
15. "Prelude and Fugue, for keyboard No. 10 in E minor" (WTC I), BWV 855 (BC L89) – 3:01
16. "Choral" from Cantata No. 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben," BWV 147 (BC A174) – 3:28
17. "Gavotte" from Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006 – 2:30
18. "Prelude and Fugue, for keyboard No. 1 in C major" (WTC I), BWV 846 (BC L80) – 3:22
19. "Fugue" from Prelude and Fugue, for organ in G major, BWV 541 (BC J22) – 3:19
20. "Adagio" from Sonata for violin & keyboard No. 3 in E major, BWV 1016 – 3:56
21. "Prelude and Fugue, for keyboard No. 3 in C sharp major" (WTC I), BWV 848 (BC L82) – 3:18
22. "Prelude" from "Nun komm der Heiden Heiland" (II), chorale prelude for organ (Achtzehn Choräle No. 8), BWV 659 (BC K82) – 3:30
23. "Prelude and Fugue, for keyboard No. 21 in B flat major" (WTC I), BWV 866 (BC L100) – 1:24

Personnel

• Jeanette Baucomont – soprano
• Christiane Legrand
  Christiane Legrand
  Christiane Legrand was a French singer.Legrand was born in Paris, the daughter of film composer Raymond Legrand, who wrote "Irma la Douce."She studied piano and classical music from the time she was four...
  
   – soprano
• Claudine Meunier – alto
• Anne Germain – alto (tracks 1 - 13)
• Hélène Devos – alto (tracks 14 - 23)
• Ward Swingle
  Ward Swingle
  Ward Swingle is an American vocalist and jazz musician.Swingle was born in Mobile, Alabama. He studied music, particularly jazz, from a very young age. He was playing in Mobile-area Big Bands before finishing high school. After high school, Swingle graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Cincinnati...
  
   – tenor, arranger
• Claude Germain – tenor (tracks 1 - 13)
• Joseph Noves – tenor (tracks 14 - 23)
• Jean Cussac – bass
• Jean Claude Briodin – bass (tracks 1 - 13)
• Jose Germain – bass (tracks 14 - 23)

• Pierre Michelot – double bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
   (tracks 1 - 13)
• Guy Pedersen – double bass (tracks 14 - 23)
• Gus Wallez or Andre Arpino – drums (tracks 1 - 13)
• Bernard Lubat or Daniel Humair – drums (tracks 14 - 23)