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Apr 2024
23m 45s

J. S. Bach's Birthday 2024

BRICE FUQUA
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To mark Bach's 339th birthday, historical recordings of the Brandenburg Concerto 3 and the B Minor Prelude and Fugue from the Well Tempered Clavier. 

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