JS Bach - Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue)
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96035
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 16th August 2019
Contents
Works
Duets (4) (complete), BWV802-805Musical Offering, BWV1079
Artists
Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord, clavichord)Gerard de Wit (harpsichord)
Works
Duets (4) (complete), BWV802-805Musical Offering, BWV1079
Artists
Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord, clavichord)Gerard de Wit (harpsichord)
About
When he died in July 1750, Bach left tantalisingly unfinished his final masterpiece, The Art of Fugue. He had been composing and compiling it during the last decade of his life, alongside several other compendious projects such as the Mass in B minor and the Musical Offering, whose fugal masterpieces are excerpted on this recording. However, The Art of Fugue remains an absorbing testimony to Bach’s genius and to his life-long love and mastery of counterpoint. A single theme is elaborated with unprecedented variety over the course of 14 fugues and four canons. One of the fugues is composed for two harpsichords – where Belder is joined by Gerard de Wit – and composed in such a way that it can be performed backwards: an extraordinary feat of ingenuity.
Belder’s new account of The Art of Fugue sets the seal on a distinguished catalogue of Bach recordings made over the course of 20 years.
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