Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2, BWV 870-893 - Bach Music Notebook Each volume is equipped with

Each volume is equipped with a table of contents including incipits of each sonata

as he called them in a letter to his fiancée Clara Wieck

we are raising the yardstick another notch: no less a musician than the pianist and conductor Murray Perahia hasagreed

Bach himself opened the book with two of the large Partitas subsequently published in the first part of the "Clavierübung”

Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2, BWV 870-893 - Bach Music Notebook Each volume is equipped withVolume 2 of the "WTC has survived in two distinct manuscript traditions. Till now, all printed editions have combined these two traditions into a single hybrid edition, preferring now this reading, now that one, at the editors descretion (A. Drr). Our volume presents each piece in the version containing the largest number of Bachs subsequent changes; significant variants from the other version are added as alternatives. A detailed preface by the