Bach / Villa-Lobos: Fugue No. 8 in E flat minor, BWV 853 (transcribed by Villa-Lobos) - 1958

So that there is no question in the mind of the listener, I rely principally on images of the LP and LP jacket in order to document the authenticity of historically important recordings such as these. Heitor Villa-Lobos conducts the Violincello Society in this 1958 recording of Bach’s Fugue No. 8 in E flat minor, BWV 853, from Book 1 of the Well Tempered Clavier. Villa-Lobos transcribed this work (as well as several others from Book 1 of the WTC) for what the LP jacket describes as an “orchestra of cel