The year winds down and with it the tricentenary of J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier I, assembled and signed by the master in 1722. But with the busiest B there’s always another timeless collection to celebrate. In 2023 the odometer of his Inventions and Sinfonias reaches the 300-year mark. I’m guessing that in the intervening More

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