This book is beautiful and has amazing quality. I highly recommend this edition for Bach and the fingering is good.
Scritto da: 5:8:13
A useful and sound edition
This is an excellent modern edition with very helpful fingering at a very reasonable price. It is a good score including the compound time variant of the first Invention. All the editorial additions are clearly marked. Clear advice is given on how the ornaments should be executed is given in the score. For those with a deeper interest in performance practice there is a more detailed preface covering History, Style and Interpretation together with more specific advice on each piece.
Scritto da: Caffre
J.S.Bach sublime...inspiring
I have the Preludes and Fugues Books 1 and 2 as well as the Italian Concerto. I know a few of the Inventions and wanted to play the rest. They are intriguing pieces and so satisfying to play and hear.
Scritto da: Kevin Boone
Another winner from the ABRSM and Mr Jones
All the Associated Boards editons of baroque and classical keyboard music, edited by Richard Jones, are serviceable, and this one is no exception. They are clearly printed on quality paper which can stand many applications of the pencil and eraser. The typesetting makes a reasonable compromise between the size of the noteheads and the number of staves required to fit the piece on a page. The fingering is mostly OK for me, but not always -- I have odd-shaped hands. The distribution of notes between the left and right hands, when it is impossible to follow a one-hand-to-a-stave approach, is nearly always sensible in Mr Jones' work, and that is the case here. There is a helpful introduction that provides notes on interpretation, both generally and for each specific piece. Ornaments are eloborated above the staves in some cases, but I'm not sure what criteria the editor has used to decide when to do this, and when to leave the composer's original markings unexplained. As an added bonus, these books are helpfully colour-coded by composer -- Bach gold, Mozart blue, etc -- which is handy if you have a shelf-full of them, as I do. My only slight criticism of this book, which applies to almost all printed music, is that eventually the spine fails and the pages fall out. To get the book to sit flat on the music stand, it is necessary to fold the pages right back, which damages the spine. I think all printed music should be spiral bound to avoid this problem. However, the ABRSM editions are reasonably priced, and I guess it isn't the end of the world if they only last a year or two.
