Artist: Helios Guitar Quartet
Title: J.S. Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1
Year Of Release: 2013
Label: CDbaby
Genre: Baroque, Guitar Transcription
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:45:19
Total Size: 486 Mb
Tracklist:1. Prelude No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846 (Arranged for Two Guitars) (01:39)
2. Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846 (Arranged for Four Guitars) (01:43)
3. Prelude No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 847 (Arranged for Two Guitars) (02:04)
4. Fugue No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 847 (Arranged for Three Guitars) (01:44)
5. Prelude No. 3 in C-Sharp Major, BWV 848 (Arranged for Two Guitars) (01:35)
6. Fugue No. 3 in C-Sharp Major, BWV 848 (Arranged for Three Guitars) (02:49)
7. Prelude No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor, BWV 849 (Arranged for Four Guitars) (02:34)
8. Fugue No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor, BWV 849 (Arranged for Four Guitars) (03:47)
9. Prelude No. 5 in D Major, BWV 850 (Arranged for Two Guitars) (01:35)
10. Fugue No. 5 in D Major, BWV 850 (Arranged for Four Guitars) (01:48)
11. Prelude No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 851 (Arranged for Two Guitars) (01:50)
12. Fugue No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 851 (Arranged for Three Guitars) (02:05)
13. Prelude No. 7 in E-Flat Major, BWV 852 (Arranged for Four Guitars) (04:00)
14. Fugue No. 7 in E-Flat Major, BWV 852 (Arranged for Three Guitars) (02:05)
15. Prelude No. 8 in E-Flat Minor, BWV 853 (Arranged for Two Guitars) (03:07)
16. Fugue No. 8 in D-Sharp Minor, BWV 853 (Arranged for Three Guitars) (04:33)
17. Prelude No. 9 in E Major, BWV 854 (Arranged for Three Guitars) (01:35)
18. Fugue No. 9 in E Major, BWV 854 (Arranged for Three Guitars) (01:20)
19. Prelude No. 10 in E Minor, BWV 855(Arranged for Two Guitars) (02:31)
20. Fugue No. 10 in E Minor, BWV 855 (Arranged for Two Guitars) (01:25)
21. Prelude No. 11 in F Major, BWV 856 (Arranged for Two Guitars) (01:25)
22. Fugue No. 11 in F Major, BWV 856 (Arranged for Three Guitars) (01:21)
23. Prelude No. 12 in F Minor, BWV 857 (Arranged for Four Guitars) (02:04)
24. Fugue No. 12 in F Minor, BWV 857 (Arranged for Four Guitars) (04:01)
25. Prelude No. 13 in F-Sharp Major, BWV 858 (Arranged for Two Guitars) (01:34)
26. Fugue No. 13 in F-Sharp Major, BWV 858 (Arranged for Three Guitars) (02:11)
27. Prelude No. 14 in F-Sharp Minor, BWV 859 (Arranged for Two Guitars) (01:13)
28. Fugue No. 14 in F-Sharp Minor, BWV 859 (Arranged for Four Guitars) (02:44)
29. Prelude No. 15 in G Major, BWV 860 (Arranged for Two Guitars) (01:05)
30. Fugue No. 15 in G Major, BWV 860 (Arranged for Three Guitars) (03:11)
31. Prelude No. 16 in G Minor, BWV 861 (Arranged for Three Guitars) (01:58)
32. Fugue No. 16 in G Minor, BWV 861 (Arranged for Four Guitars) (01:44)
33. Prelude No. 17 in A-Flat Major, BWV 862 (Arranged for Two Guitars) (01:24)
34. Fugue No. 17 in A-Flat Major, BWV 862 (Arranged for Four Guitars) (02:32)
35. Prelude No. 18 in G-Sharp Minor, BWV 863 (Arranged for Three Guitars) (01:20)
36. Fugue No. 18 in G-Sharp Minor, BWV 863 (Arranged for Four Guitars) (01:54)
37. Prelude No. 19 in A Major, BWV 864 (Arranged for Three Guitars) (01:29)
38. Fugue No. 19 in A Major, BWV 864 (Arranged for Three Guitars) (02:40)
39. Prelude No. 20 in A Minor, BWV 865 (Arranged for Two Guitars) (01:18)
40. Fugue No. 20 in A Minor, BWV 865 (Arranged for Four Guitars) (04:12)
41. Prelude No. 21 in B-Flat Major, BWV 866 (Arranged for Two Guitars) (01:32)
42. Fugue No. 21 in B-Flat Major, BWV 866 (Arranged for Four Guitars) (01:40)
43. Prelude No. 22 in B-Flat Minor, BWV 867 (Arranged for Four Guitars) (02:02)
44. Fugue No. 22 in B-Flat Minor, BWV 867 (Arranged for Four Guitars) (02:26)
45. Prelude No. 23 in B Major, BWV 868 (Arranged for Three Guitars) (01:08)
46. Fugue No. 23 in B Major, BWV 868 (Arranged for Four Guitars) (01:40)
47. Prelude No. 24 in B Minor, BWV 869 (Arranged for Three Guitars) (02:31)
48. Fugue No. 24 in B Minor, BWV 869 (Arranged for Four Guitars) (05:11)
Performers:
Helios Guitar Quartet:Michael Kudirka - adapted "soprano guitar" (Soprano voice);
Albert Diaz, Jack Cimo - guitar (Alto voice);
Adam Pettit - 7-string guitar (Bass voice)
For starters, the group, consisting of award-winning musicians and USC Thornton alumni Jack Cimo, Albert Diaz, Michael Kudirka and Adam Pettit, is separated by hundreds of miles. Cimo is a Chicago-based performer, Diaz a current graduate student at U.C.L.A., Kudirka a full-time Assistant Professor of Guitar at the North Carolina School of the Arts, and Pettit a faculty member of the Pasadena Conservatory of Music.
While the guitarists are all, at present, involved with professional commitments across the country, their collaborative work and prowess as an ensemble was made apparent by their release of Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, released last summer.
Beginning in 2008 with the seedling of Michael Kudirka's arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach's monumental collection, the quartet has since recorded, edited, and mastered the finished product of "countless hours" of work and dedication.
If the task of recording a rendition of Bach's original collection of solo keyboard music seemed daunting-and more than a bit ill-fitting-for a guitar quartet, ingenuity on the part of the musicians is what helped to bridge the gap between the two starkly different instrumental sounds.
Drawing inspiration from the string quartet tradition, the Helios Guitar Quartet used "a variety of differently pitched instruments to extend the range of the ensemble," which involved fashioning two uniquely capable guitars for their performance.
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