Bach - Die Kunst Der Fuge (BWV 1080) - L'Art De La Fugue - The Art Of Fugue / Marie-Claire Alain / Erato 2x Audio CD 2017 Stereo

UPC 0190295895174

Marie-Claire Alain organ on the Great Organ by Alfred Kern (1975) of the Église Saint-Martin, Masevaux (Haut-Rhin) STEREO · RECORDED IN 1992 Bach’s fascination with the possibilities of counterpoint is the very essence of Die Kunst der Fuge, which the great French organist Marie-Claire Alain (1926-2013) performed at Alsace’s Masevaux Organ Festival in 1992. Famously and enigmatically, Bach never completed the work, and Alain respects this by breaking off the final fugue. ”Let us not forget that Bach was human too,” she wrote. “The brilliant architect and accomplished philosopher speaks and acts as a man both vulnerable and humble in the face of destiny that pursues its inexorable course.”

Tracklist:

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)

Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080

CD 1    53:21

Contrapuncti BWV 1080, 1-7 - Canons BWV 1080, 14 - 17

Contrapuncti BWV 1080, 12' & 12''

CD 2   44:24

Contrapuncti BWV 1080, 13'' & 13'

Contrapuncti BWV 1080, 8 - 11 & 19 (Fuga a 3 soggetti)

• Organ - Marie-Claire Alain