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J.S.Bach: Die Kunst Der Fuge = The Art Of The Fugue = L'Art De La Fugue – Juilliard String Quartet / Sony Classical 2x Audio CD 1992 / S2K 45 937
UPC 5099704593722
The Art of Fugue, or The Art of the Fugue (German: Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV 1080, is an incomplete musical work of unspecified instrumentation by Johann Sebastian Bach. Written in the last decade of his life, The Art of Fugue is the culmination of Bach's experimentation with monothematic instrumental works.
This work consists of fourteen fugues and four canons in D minor, each using some variation of a single principal subject, and generally ordered to increase in complexity. "The governing idea of the work", as put by Bach specialist Christoph Wolff, "was an exploration in depth of the contrapuntal possibilities inherent in a single musical subject." The word "contrapunctus" is often used for each fugue.
| Label: | Sony Classical – S2K 45 937 |
|---|---|
| Format: |
2 x CD, Album
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
1992 |
| Genre: | Classical |
| Style: | Baroque |
Tracklist:
| 1-1 | Contrapunctus 1 | 4:10 | |
| 1-2 | Contrapunctus 2 | 2:30 | |
| 1-3 | Contrapunctus 3 | 3:54 | |
| 1-4 | Contrapunctus 4 | 3:22 | |
| 1-5 | Contrapunctus 5 | 2:52 | |
| 1-6 | Contrapunctus 6, A 4, Im Stile Francese | 4:21 | |
| 1-7 | Contrapunctus 7, A 4, Per Augmentationem Et Diminutionem |
2:28 | |
| 1-8 | Contrapunctus 8, A 3 | 6:07 | |
| 1-9 | Contrapunctus 9, A 4, Alla Duodecima | 2:13 | |
| 1-10 | Contrapunctus 10, A 4, Alla Decima | 6:18 | |
| 1-11 | Contrapunctus, A 4 | 5:55 | |
| 2-1 | Canon Alla Ottava | 2:21 | |
| 2-2 | Canon Alla Decima In Contrapuncto Alla Terza | 6:18 | |
| 2-3 | Canon Alla Duodecima In Contrapuncto Alla Quinta | 4:05 | |
| 2-4 | Canon Per Augmentationem In Contrario Motu | 7:17 | |
| 2-5 | Contrapunctus 13, A 3 | 2:03 | |
| 2-6 | Inversus 13, A 3 | 2:06 | |
| 2-7 | Contrapunctus 12, A 4 | 3:23 | |
| 2-8 | Inversus 12, A 4 | 3:41 | |
| 2-9 | Contrapunctus 14 | 10:03 | |
| 2-10 | Choral: "Vor Deinen Thron Tret' Ich Hiermit" | 4:29 |
- Cello – Joel Krosnick
- Composed By – Johann Sebastian Bach
- Engineer – Bud Graham
- Performer – Juilliard String Quartet
- Producer – Steve Epstein
- Viola – Samuel Rhodes
- Violin – Joel Smirnoff, Robert Mann (4)
