For Your GRAMMY® Consideration

The Well-“Tampered” Clavier, Book 1

J.S. Bach, arr. Sam Post

Sam Post & Ralitza Patcheva, piano

• Best Classical Instrumental Solo

Pianist and arranger Sam Post reimagines all 48 preludes and fugues of Bach’s first book, drawing on a rhythmic vocabulary shaped by world music, ragtime, and jazz while keeping Bach’s architecture intact.

The set is shared between two pianists, Sam Post and Ralitza Patcheva, across a two-disc program recorded at Lang Hall, Levine Music, in Washington, D.C.

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Credits

Piano

Sam Post, Ralitza Patcheva

Arrangements

Sam Post

Recorded

Lang Hall, Levine Music, Washington, D.C. · 2022–2023

Press

“Contemporary yet historically vital.”

Laurence Vittes, Gramophone

“Sensational”

Raul da Gama, The WholeNote

“The manipulations are imaginative and varied.”

Remy Franck, Pizzicato

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