Listen Now: The Well-Tempered Clavier
With his first-ever recording of The Well-Tempered Clavier (Book 1), released on Deutsche Grammophon, Trevor Pinnock explores the summit of Bach’s intellectual and contrapuntal mastery. Intuition plays a central role in Trevor’s music making, and he channels the formidable combination of instinctive understanding and in-depth knowledge of the scores into this recording. “The Well-Tempered Clavier...
Trevor Pinnock Becomes Patron of Jessie’s Fund
Jessie’s Fund helps children with additional and complex needs or serious illness to communicate by using music. Music can provide a powerful and profound way in which children can express themselves and connect with the world around them. Jessie’s Fund is a registered charity working all over the UK. “I am thrilled to become a...
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
2020The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
“My journey with The Well-Tempered Clavier has been life-long,” Trevor Pinnock recalls. “I first encountered it at about 12 years old … A few years later, I heard all the preludes and fugues played on the piano on the radio, and I was hooked. In my 20s I myself recorded some preludes and fugues for...