Word: clavier
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Bach's Preludes and Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Nos. 10-17 by Pianist Evlyn Howard-Jones (Columbia, $8)-A continuation of the Clavier series begun by Pianist Harriet Cohen (Nos. 1-9). Evlyn Howard-Jones, a capable London musician, was coolly received when he played in the U. S. Songs & Ballads...
...great length for use in the Lutheran service (it takes nearly three hours to perform). It was conceived probably with little thought for its future, as an expression of Bach's own deep, personal faith, inspired by the simple piety that led him to inscribe even the little clavier pieces composed for his children with the words In Nomine Jesu. Yet the text adheres to the form of the Ordinary of the Roman Mass. It begins with the Kyrie Eleison, Greek words which mean "Lord have mercy upon us." The conventional divisions follow: the Gloria (Gloria in excelsis Deo, "Glory...