Selections from The Well Tempered Klavier, Book 1 arranged for four horns Elegy 3 ½ mins

Elegy 3 ½ mins

The third movement is a meditation on the carol Don't Cry

The oboe takes the spotlight for much of this movement

the oboist is featured performing Don José’s sweeping melody with the cor anglais in a supporting role

Selections from The Well Tempered Klavier, Book 1 arranged for four horns Elegy 3 ½ minsThere is little to say about the Well Tempered Clavier that has not already been said. It is a touchstone in the development of harmonic and contrapuntal technique; a culmination of centuries of increasingly complex polyphonic writing in the Renaissance, and they would lay an unshakeable foundation for centuries of progress. A working knowledge of their structure a must for any serious student of music. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote two sets of preludes