Bach's Art of Fugue
Lucie Skeaping, with expert advice from Simon Heighes, considers the background, purpose and music of JS Bach's last great masterpiece, The Art of Fugue
Lucie Skeaping takes expert advice from Simon Heighes to explore the background, purpose and music of JS Bach's last great masterpiece - The Art of Fugue.
At the end of his life Johann Sebastian Bach set out to create a great summary of his thoughts and ideas about an intellectual musical form he'd made very much his own - the fugue. The result is the "Art of Fugue" which he left unfinished at his death - or did he? How should we regard this work? Was it intended for performance and if so, how? Who was it written for?
Lucie pulls together various recordings of the work and, in conversation with Bach expert Simon Heighes, unpicks some of the thinking behind this extraordinary composition.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of Fugue - Fuga a 2 Soggetti
Performer: Ton Koopman.- ERATO : 4509-963872, track 20.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of Fugue - Fuga a 2 Soggetti
Performer: Ton Koopman.- ERATO : 4509-96387-2.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of Fugue - Contrapunctus 1 a 4
Performer: Herbert Tachezi.- TELDEC : 8.43771, track 1.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of Fugue - Contrapunctus 1 a 4
Performer: Herbert Tachezi.- TELDEC : 8.43771.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of Fugue - Contrapunctus VI a 4 Stile Francese
Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON : 477 7345, track 6.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of Fugue - Contrapunctus VI a 4 Stile Francese
Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON : 477 7345.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of Fugue - Contrapunctus VIII
Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.- ALIA VOX : AVSA 9818, CD2 track 1.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of Fugue - Contrapunctus VIII
Performer: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI.- ALIA VOX : avsa-9818.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of Fugue - Contrapunctus IV
Ensemble: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.- ARCHIV : 447 293-2, track 4.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of Fugue - Contrapunctus IV
Performer: Reinhard Goebel. Ensemble: Musica Antiqua K枚ln.- ARCHIV : 447-293 2.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of Fugue - Contrapunctus XI a 4
Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- PENTATONE : PTC-5186 140.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of Fugue - Contrapunctus 10
Performer: Davitt Moroney.- HARMONIA MUNDI : HMC 90116970, CD12 track 9.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of Fugue - Contrapunctus 10
Performer: Davitt Moroney.- HARMONIA MUNDI : HMC 901169/70.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of Fugue - final (incomplete)contrapunctus
Ensemble: Phantasm.- SIMAX : PSC 1135, track 12.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Art of Fugue - Fuga a 3 Soggetti (unfinished)
Ensemble: Phantasm.- SIMAX : PSC-1135.
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