Bach's Inventions and Sinfonias are rightly considered as indispensable to every pianist. In his famous preface to the collection, Bach himself called it an Instruction which teaches students and keyboard lovers to treat correctlyboth two and three voices, to achieve a singing style in playing and to acquire a strong foretaste of composition.

To this end, Bach created timelessly beautiful music which has lost nothing of its relevance to us nearly 300 yearsafter its creation. Henle now presen...