
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude & Fugue No.9 in E major
BWV854 • “The Well-tempered Clavier Book 1: Prelude & Fugue No. 9”
About this work
Elegant and polished, this prelude has a gentle rhythmic ebb and flow that smoothes over what could otherwise serve as an almost rustic dance tune. The clean, compact fugue, sprightly and chattering, seems designed to keep the fingers as busy as possible within a moderate, not fast, tempo; it reaches its tightly argued conclusion in less than a minute and a half.