24 Preludes & Fugues, op. 87

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Vladimir Ashkenazy

24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 is a cycle of solo piano pieces by Dmitri Shostakovich, composed in 1950–51. The set adopts the Baroque prelude-and-fugue model across all major and minor keys, combining contrapuntal rigour with 20th-century harmonic and rhythmic language and varied pianistic textures, and it marks Shostakovich's return to large-scale keyboard writing in his mid-career as he engaged with historical forms within a modern idiom.
First released: 17th May 1999

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 13 in F-sharp major: Prelude
    1:45
  2. 2.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 1 in C major: Prelude
    2:28
  3. 3.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 13 in F-sharp major: Fugue
    4:04
  4. 4.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 1 in C major: Fugue
    2:29
  5. 5.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 2 in A minor: Prelude
    0:54
  6. 6.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 14 in E-flat minor: Prelude
    3:49
  7. 7.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 14 in E-flat minor: Fugue
    3:09
  8. 8.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 2 in A minor: Fugue
    1:24
  9. 9.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 3 in G major: Prelude
    1:50
  10. 10.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 15 in D-flat major: Prelude
    2:52
  11. 11.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 15 in D-flat major: Fugue
    1:45
  12. 12.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 3 in G major: Fugue
    1:51
  13. 13.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 4 in E minor: Prelude
    3:16
  14. 14.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 16 in B-flat minor: Prelude
    2:32
  15. 15.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 16 in B-flat minor: Fugue
    7:12
  16. 16.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 4 in E minor: Fugue
    5:19
  17. 17.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 5 in D major: Prelude
    2:02
  18. 18.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 17 in A-flat major: Prelude
    1:54
  19. 19.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 5 in D major: Fugue
    1:51
  20. 20.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 17 in A-flat major: Fugue
    3:29
  21. 21.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 6 in B minor: Prelude
    1:31
  22. 22.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 18 in F minor: Prelude
    2:31
  23. 23.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 18 in F minor: Fugue
    3:56
  24. 24.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 6 in B minor: Fugue
    4:18
  25. 25.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 19 in E-flat major: Prelude
    1:39
  26. 26.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 7 in A major: Prelude
    1:22
  27. 27.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 7 in A major: Fugue
    2:13
  28. 28.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 19 in E-flat major: Fugue
    1:56
  29. 29.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 20 in C minor: Prelude
    3:54
  30. 30.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 8 in F-sharp minor: Prelude
    1:14
  31. 31.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 20 in C minor: Fugue
    5:33
  32. 32.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 8 in F-sharp minor: Fugue
    5:43
  33. 33.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 21 in B-flat major: Prelude
    1:25
  34. 34.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 9 in E major: Prelude
    2:48
  35. 35.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 9 in E major: Fugue
    1:36
  36. 36.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 21 in B-flat major: Fugue
    2:29
  37. 37.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 10 in C-sharp minor: Prelude
    1:54
  38. 38.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 22 in G minor: Prelude
    2:19
  39. 39.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 22 in G minor: Fugue
    3:15
  40. 40.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 10 in C-sharp minor: Fugue
    5:21
  41. 41.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 11 in B major: Prelude
    1:08
  42. 42.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 23 in F major: Prelude
    3:03
  43. 43.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 23 in F major: Fugue
    3:21
  44. 44.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 11 in B major: Fugue
    2:03
  45. 45.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 12 in G-sharp minor: Prelude
    4:04
  46. 46.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 24 in D minor: Prelude
    3:52
  47. 47.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 12 in G-sharp minor: Fugue
    3:27
  48. 48.
    Prelude & Fugue no. 24 in D minor: Fugue
    7:23

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