Dongsok Shin discusses the Lautenwerck & plays J.S. Bach: Prelude, Fugue & Allegro in E-Flat BWV 998

Historically-informed performance keyboardist Dongsok Shin talks about the lautenwerck, a keyboard instrument with gut strings that produced sounds similar to a lute. Two were among J.S. Bach’s possessions at the time of his death, and it is now thought that Bach wrote for this instrument the works that for many years have been identified as Lute Suites. Mr. Shin follows the discussion with a performance of Bach’s Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-Flat Major, BWV 998, on a modern reproduction of a lautenwerck. (No surviving examples exist of the original instrument.)