Bach: Inventions & Sinfonias

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Piano Classics
Release Date
January 16, 2026
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Johann Sebastian Bach
    • PERFORMER
      Yuan Sheng
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 16, 2026
    • UPC
      5063758103275
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PCL10327
    • LABEL
      Piano Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Invention No. 1 in C Major, BWV 772

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    2. Invention No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 773

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    3. Invention No. 3 in D Major, BWV 774

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    4. Invention No. 4 in D Minor, BWV 775

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    5. Invention No. 5 in E-Flat Major, BWV 776

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    6. Invention No. 6 in E Major, BWV 777

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    7. Invention No. 7 in E Minor, BWV 778

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    8. Invention No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    9. Invention No. 9 in F Minor, BWV 780

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    10. Invention No. 10 in G Major, BWV 781

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    11. Invention No. 11 in G Minor, BWV 782

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    12. Invention No. 12 in A Major, BWV 783

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    13. Invention No. 13 in A Minor, BWV 784

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    14. Invention No. 14 in B-Flat Major, BWV 785

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    15. Invention No. 15 in B Minor, BWV 786

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    16. Sinfonia No. 1 in C Major, BWV 787

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    17. Sinfonia No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 788

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    18. Sinfonia No. 3 in D Major, BWV 789

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    19. Sinfonia No. 4 in D Minor, BWV 790

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    20. Sinfonia No. 5 in E-Flat Major, BWV 791

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    21. Sinfonia No. 6 in E Major, BWV 792

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    22. Sinfonia No. 7 in E Minor, BWV 793

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    23. Sinfonia No. 8 in F Major, BWV 794

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    24. Sinfonia No. 9 in F Minor, BWV 795

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    25. Sinfonia No. 10 in G Major, BWV 796

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    26. Sinfonia No. 11 in G Minor, BWV 797

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    27. Sinfonia No. 12 in A Major, BWV 798

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    28. Sinfonia No. 13 in A Minor, BWV 799

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    29. Sinfonia No. 14 in B-Flat Major, BWV 800

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    30. Sinfonia No. 15 in B Minor, BWV 801

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    31. Invention No. 1 in C Major, BWV 772a

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    32. Sinfonia No. 3 in D Major BWV 789

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    33. Sinfonia No. 4 in D Minor, BWV 790

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    34. Sinfonia No. 7 in E Minor, BWV 793

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    35. Sinfonia No. 9 in F Minor, BWV 795

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    36. Sinfonia No. 11 in G Minor, BWV 797

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng

    37. Sinfonia No. 13 in A Minor, BWV 799

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Yuan Sheng


The latest volume in an ongoing series by an acclaimed Bach specialist on the modern piano. With recordings of the French Suites, Partitas and Goldberg Variations on Piano Classics, the Chinese pianist Yuan Sheng has placed himself among the most searching of present-day Bach pianists. As Jed Distler remarked in Gramophone, reviewing the Goldbergs, 'Yuan Sheng's disciplined, scrupulously terraced style often reflects his mentor Rosalyn Tureck.' In a new and illuminating booklet essay for this album, the musicologist and pianist Raymond Erickson remarks that the 15 two-part Inventions and the 15 three-part Sinfonias played an important role in Bach's teaching. These pieces, although today mainly associated with basic piano training, are not at all easy and in fact are sophisticated, small-scale masterpieces. 'They were not composed simply to provide technical training in keyboard playing but, perhaps more important, to teach keyboard players how to compose.' In 1720 Bach's oldest son Wilhelm Friedemann (1710-84) was already of an age appropriate for introducing him into the family trade of musician. So Bach started for him a music notebook: a Clavierbuchlein which included these Inventions and Sinfonias. Bach revised them shortly before moving to Leipzig in the spring of 1720, to take up his new post as Thomaskantor, and copied them out with a preface. In learning and playing these works, Bach affirmed, a diligent student would be taught 'a clear manner for playing not only in two voices but also in three obbligato parts and, furthermore, not only how to invent good musical ideas [inventiones] but also how to develop these well. And above all, how to achieve a cantabile manner of playing, and additionally to obtain a strong foretaste of Composition.' So it is that the Inventions and Sinfonias have given much pleasure to both performers and listeners throughout the subsequent two centuries. Brief as they are, each one of these 30 works elegantly outlines a distinct and often playful world of it's own. They reward intensive listening both on their own and in sequence. And Yuan Sheng's performances draw on all the coloristic possibilities and varieties of articulation available on the modern piano, without seeking to exceed the bounds of style which the works themselves inhabit.