Rachel Cooke
Journalist and writer Rachel Cooke considers The Well-Tempered Clavier as domestic music: written in a busy household to be played in busy households for centuries to follow.
The Essay reflects upon the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier by JS Bach, his landmark collection of Preludes and Fugues in every available key. Journalist and writer Rachel Cooke considers the role of the Well-Tempered Clavier as domestic music 鈥� written in a busy household to be played in busy households for centuries to follow.
Technical Producer... Mike Etherden
Production co-ordinator... Sara Benaim
Written and presented by Rachel Cooke
Produced by Abigail le Fleming
A 蜜芽传媒 Audio Production for Radio 3
About the essayist...
Rachel Cooke is an award-winning journalist. She is a writer and columnist at the Observer, and the television critic of the New Statesman. Her series about spinsters and other singletons, The Odd Woman, was broadcast on Radio 3 in 2020. Her book, Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary
Women of the Fifties, is published by Virago. She is currently working on The Reckoning, a book exploring ideas around bad behaviour and good art.
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