This is the 4th instalment of Yuan Sheng’s complete Bach cycle played on the piano, previous issues include the Goldberg Variations and the Italian Concerto/French Overture and the 6 Partitas.

• “China’s premier interpreter of Bach”, is what International Piano Magazine called Yuan Sheng. A pupil of Solomon Mikowsky (Manhattan School of Music) and notably Rosalyn Tureck Yuan Sheng extensively studied the performance practice of Baroque music. Equally at home at the harpsichord he has an instinctive feeling for the possibilities, sonorities and touch of the instrument at hand, so that “the listener might easily have imagined the composer at the keyboard” (Boston Intelligencer).

• Again Yuan Sheng draws the listener into his highly intelligent musical discours, vibrant and moving, speaking through the medium of a modern Steinway piano.

• Besides pursuing an international career Yuan Sheng is Professor of Piano at the Bejing Central Conservatory of Music.

• The excellent booklet essay (liner notes is too modest a description..) is written by renowned scholar Raymond Erickson