The Two and Three Part Inventions

Album by Johann Sebastian Bach & Glenn Gould

The Two- and Three-Part Inventions are sets of keyboard works by Johann Sebastian Bach, composed around 1720. These Baroque pieces exemplify contrapuntal writing in two- and three-voice textures, serving as pedagogical exercises in counterpoint and keyboard technique and informing Bach's later polyphonic keyboard compositions.
First released: 1964

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Invention no. 1 in C major, BWV 772
    1:30
  2. 2.
    Sinfonia no. 1 in C major, BWV 787
    0:45
  3. 3.
    Invention no. 2 in C minor, BWV 773
    2:54
  4. 4.
    Sinfonia no. 2 in C minor, BWV 788
    3:01
  5. 5.
    Invention no. 5 in E-flat major, BWV 776
    1:21
  6. 6.
    Sinfonia no. 5 in E-flat major, BWV 791
    3:06
  7. 7.
    Invention no. 14 in B-flat major, BWV 785
    1:36
  8. 8.
    Sinfonia no. 14 in B-flat major, BWV 800
    1:08
  9. 9.
    Invention no. 11 in G minor, BWV 782
    0:54
  10. 10.
    Sinfonia no. 11 in G minor, BWV 797
    3:43
  11. 11.
    Invention no. 10 in G major, BWV 781
    0:40
  12. 12.
    Sinfonia no. 10 in G major, BWV 796
    0:56
  13. 13.
    Invention no. 15 in B minor, BWV 786
    0:51
  14. 14.
    Sinfonia no. 15 in B minor, BWV 801
    1:04
  15. 15.
    Invention no. 7 in E minor, BWV 778
    0:54
  16. 16.
    Sinfonia no. 7 in E minor, BWV 793
    1:31
  17. 17.
    Invention no. 6 in E major, BWV 777
    2:41
  18. 18.
    Sinfonia no. 6 in E major, BWV 792
    0:49
  19. 19.
    Invention no. 13 in A minor, BWV 784
    0:44
  20. 20.
    Sinfonia no. 13 in A minor, BWV 799
    2:13
  21. 21.
    Invention no. 12 in A major, BWV 783
    0:55
  22. 22.
    Sinfonia no. 12 in A major, BWV 798
    1:15
  23. 23.
    Invention no. 3 in D major, BWV 774
    1:00
  24. 24.
    Sinfonia no. 3 in D major, BWV 789
    1:06
  25. 25.
    Invention no. 4 in D minor, BWV 775
    0:44
  26. 26.
    Sinfonia no. 4 in D minor, BWV 790
    3:14
  27. 27.
    Invention no. 8 in F major, BWV 779
    1:03
  28. 28.
    Sinfonia no. 8 in F major, BWV 794
    0:58
  29. 29.
    Invention no. 9 in F minor, BWV 780
    2:48
  30. 30.
    Sinfonia no. 9 in F minor, BWV 795
    4:22
  31. 31.
    Sinfonia no. 8 in F major, BWV 794
    0:53
  32. 32.
    Sinfonia no. 15 in B minor, BWV 801
    0:55
  33. 33.
    Sinfonia no. 9 in F minor, BWV 795
    5:08
  34. 34.
    Unedited Studio Session Takes from June 6 & 9, 1955 from Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV 772-801: Sinfonia no. 8 in F major, BWV 794
    2:14
  35. 35.
    Unedited Studio Session Takes from June 6 & 9, 1955 from Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV 772-801: Sinfonia no. 15 in B minor, BWV 801
    5:38
  36. 36.
    Unedited Studio Session Takes from June 6 & 9, 1955 from Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV 772-801: Sinfonia no. 9 in F minor, BWV 795
    5:09

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