Bach,J.S. / Xiao-Mei,Zhu Inventions & Sinfonias CD

When Bach composed them, in his last years in Kothen, those pivotal years that were to lead him to Leipzig, he already had an incredible number of masterpieces behind him. He took the trouble to make a beautiful fair copy of this work. It's a product of his maturity. But since these pieces serve as a basic tool for learning the piano, they're inevitably overshadowed by the larger cycles, like The Well-Tempered Clavier, the Goldberg Variations, The Art of Fugue and so on. But that's a mistake, because there's an extraordinary density of music in the Inventions and Sinfonias. Zhu Xiao-Mei

1. Invention No. 1 in C Major, BWV772 2. Invention No. 2 in C Minor, BWV773 3. Invention No. 3 in D Major, BWV774 4. Invention No. 4 in D Minor, BWV775 5. Invention No. 5 in E Flat Major, BWV776 6. Invention No. 6 in E Major, BWV777 7. Invention No. 7 in E Minor, BWV778 8. Invention No. 8 in F Major, BWV779 9. Invention No. 9 in F Minor, BWV780 10. Invention No. 10 in G Major, BWV781 11. Invention No. 11 in G Minor, BWV782 12. Invention No. 12 in a Major, BWV783 13. Invention No. 13 in a Minor, BWV784 14. Invention No. 14 in B Flat Major, BWV785 15. Invention No. 15 in B Minor, BWV786 16. Sinfonia No. 1 in C Major, BWV787 17. Sinfonia No. 2 in C Minor, BWV788 18. Sinfonia No. 3 in D Major, BWV789 19. Sinfonia No. 4 in D Minor, BWV790 20. Sinfonia No. 5 in E Flat Major, BWV791 21. Sinfonia No. 6 in E Major, BWV792 22. Sinfonia No. 7 in E Minor, BWV793 23. Sinfonia No. 8 in F Major, BWV794 24. Sinfonia No. 9 in F Minor, BWV795 25. Sinfonia No. 10 in G Major, BWV796 26. Sinfonia No. 11 in G Minor, BWV797 27. Sinfonia No. 12 in a Major, BWV798 28. Sinfonia No. 13 in a Minor, BWV799 29. Sinfonia No. 14 in B Flat Major, BWV800 30. Sinfonia No. 15 in B Minor, BWV801