JS Bach - The Art of Fugue
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Label: Gramola
Cat No: 98009
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 9th April 2020
Contents
Works
The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV1080: Contrapunctus XIV (compl. DF Tovey)The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV1080: Contrapunctus XIV (compl. KH Pillney)
The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV1080: Contrapunctus XIV (compl. Kalevi Aho)
The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV1080
Fugues (6) on the name BACH, op.60
Artists
Salzburg Chamber SoloistsConductor
Christoph SchlurenWorks
The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV1080: Contrapunctus XIV (compl. DF Tovey)The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV1080: Contrapunctus XIV (compl. KH Pillney)
The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV1080: Contrapunctus XIV (compl. Kalevi Aho)
The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV1080
Fugues (6) on the name BACH, op.60
Artists
Salzburg Chamber SoloistsConductor
Christoph SchlurenAbout
In the interest of a cantabile performance of the fugue style as an instrumental continuation of the classical vocal polyphony of the Renaissance and the early Baroque (i.e. in the developmental line Ockeghem-Josquin-Palestrina-Frescobaldi-Bach), the execution is entrusted exclusively to the colour of the string instruments, in tempos derived from the tradition of the Musica sacra, predominantly solemn, and performed as chorale-like as possible, for Bach, as Marpurg wrote in his fugue treatise in 1753, wished to observe ‘a noble and melodious simplicity’ and ‘a cantabile manner of playing’ in his Art of Fugue. The Art of Fugue is a meditation on the basic theme and the themes combining with it in various forms, to which the theme B-A-C-H is added at the end. The myth of the Art of Fugue stemmed from the fact that the final fugue was the first printed work to feature an unfinished, aborting piece of music in 1751 – this was such a daring step that it had to be domesticated by the concluding chorale ‘Vor deinen Thron tret’ ich hiermit’. The quality of the completion of the final fugue by three later masters can be experienced in whether the listener notices, even without knowing about it, where Bach’s original ends, or whether he does not hear it, and whether the arrangement is satisfactory as a whole. For ‘Triple Completion’, the most successful completions were selected from a large number of attempts.
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