Description
Johann Sebastian Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge • The Art of Fugue / Audio CD
UPC: 028946302729
Overview
Musica Antiqua Köln under Reinhard Goebel presents a masterful traversal of Bach’s final contrapuntal monument, Die Kunst der Fuge (BWV 1080). Across 75 minutes, this recording captures the intricate webs of fugues, canons, and inversional studies with historical insight and expressive clarity, offering one of the definitive performances of Bach’s late masterpiece.
Product Features
- Format: CD, Album, Reissue
- Label & Catalogue: Deutsche Grammophon – 463 027-2 (Bach Meisterwerke Series)
- Country of Release: Germany
- Release Year: February 1999
- Genre: Classical / Baroque
- Total Running Time: 75:40
- Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln
- Conductor: Reinhard Goebel
- Cover Art: Pieter Claesz illustration; Bach portrait by E.G. Haussmann
- Recorded: 1984, Polydor International GmbH, Hamburg
- Art Direction: Lutz Bode
Track Listing
- Contrapunctus 1 – 2:57
- Contrapunctus 2 – 2:58
- Contrapunctus 3 – 2:55
- Contrapunctus 4 – 3:10
- Canon alla Ottava – 3:54
- Contrapunctus 5 – 3:26
- Contrapunctus 6, a 4, in Stylo Francese – 3:34
- Contrapunctus 7, a 4 per Augmentationem et Diminutionem – 2:50
- Canon alla Decima (Contrapunto alla Terza) – 4:20
- Contrapunctus 9, a 4, alla Duodecima – 2:22
- Contrapunctus 10, a 4, alla Decima – 4:13
- Contrapunctus 8, a 3 – 4:56
- Contrapunctus 11, a 4 – 4:14
- Canon alla Duodecima (Contrapunto alla Quinta) – 3:49
- Contrapunctus 12, a 4: a. Rectus – 2:19 b. Inversus – 2:19
- Contrapunctus 13, a 3: a. Rectus – 2:13 b. Inversus – 2:14
- Fuga a 2 Clav. – 2:12
- Alio modo: Fuga a 2 Clav. – 2:14
- Canon per Augmentationem in contrario Motu – 4:16
- Fuga a 3 Soggetti (Contrapunctus 14) – 7:29
Publishers and Artists
- Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
- Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln
- Conductor: Reinhard Goebel
- Series: Bach Meisterwerke (Deutsche Grammophon)
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