This first week you’ll be listening to a Prelude and Fugue No. 5 in D Major by J. S. Bach, from the Well Tempered Clavier Book 1.  This is music from the Baroque Period (1600-1750) and one of the  characteristics of music from this period is that it is written in a polyphonic- many voices- style.  This will be especially evident in the Fugue which has four voices.  See if you can hear the entrance of all four of them.  Another characteristic of Baroque music is its “perpetual” motion feel.  Once the piece begins it is propelled forward from measure to measure not stopping until the very end.  The performer is Vikingur Olafsson, a new voice, but one who plays Baroque Music which freshness and an aliveness that is captivating.  Happy listening!