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Harpsichordist Colin Booth explores Preludes, including some that represent a musical genre of stand-alone pieces that have become a genre in their own right. He also explores Fugues which stand alone or are paired with Preludes. On this CD of 19 tracks, most of the Preludes and Fugues are stand-alone pieces which alternate in their position in the program, thus suggesting pairings which work musically, even though they are by different composers and even from different times.
Preludes... and Fugues
Louis Couperin: Prelude in D minor (no. 1 in Colin Tilney’s edition)
Louis Couperin: Prelude in A minor (Tilney no.5)
George Frederick Handel: Fugue in A minor
Thomas Roseingrave: Introduction to Scarlatti's Sonatas
Domenico Scarlatti: Fugue in G minor K 30 ("Tne Cat’s Fugue")
Louis Couperin: Prelude in C minor (Tilney no. 15) Scarlatti: Fugue in C minor (K 58) Louis Couperin (?): Prelude in D minor (attributed to Couperin by Alan Curtis)
Scarlatti: Fugue in D minor (K 41)
Louis Couperin: Prelude in E minor (Tilney no. 14)
Roseingrave: Fugue in E minor no. IV
Handel: Prelude in F minor
Handel: Fugue in F minor
Jean Henry D'Anglebert: Prelude in D minor (Suite III, 1687; Tilney no. 3O)
D'Anglebert: Organ Fugue 3 in D minor
Louis Couperin: Prelude in G minor (Tilney no. 5)
Scarlatti: Fugue in G minor (K 93)
Johann Mattheson: Prelude in D minor (Suite l) Scarlatti: Fugue in D minor (K 417)
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