The Art of Fugue (Album)

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The Art of Fugue
Studio album by Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Publication
(s)

January 18, 2008

Label (s) Deutsche Grammophon

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Baroque

Title (number)

20th

running time

78 min 33 s

chronology
Homage à Messiaen
(2008) 		The Art of Fugue Maurice Ravel: The Piano Concertos & Miroirs
(2010)

The Art of Fugue is a classical album with Johann Sebastian Bach's Art of Fugue , recorded by Pierre-Laurent Aimard and published by Deutsche Grammophon in January 2008 .

Emergence

The recording was made in autumn 2007 in the Mozart Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus .

In 2009 the documentary Pianomania - The Search for the Perfect Sound was released , which primarily focuses on the preparation and recording of Bach's Art of Fugue by Aimard.

Pieces

  1. Contrapunctus 1 - 03:01
  2. Contrapunctus 2 - 02:38
  3. Contrapunctus 3 - 03:11
  4. Contrapunctus 4 - 03:05
  5. Contrapunctus 5 - 03:07
  6. Contrapunctus 6. a 4 in Stylo Francese - 04:40
  7. Contrapunctus 7. a 4 per Augmentationem et Diminutionem - 04:09
  8. Contrapunctus 8. a 3 - 07:01
  9. Contrapunctus 9. a 4 alla Duodecima - 02:18
  10. Contrapunctus 10. a 4 alla Decima - 03:44
  11. Contrapunctus 11. a 4 - 07:04
  12. Contrapunctus inversus 12.1 a 4 - 03:01
  13. Contrapunctus inversus 12.2 a 4 - 03:14
  14. Contrapunctus inversus 13.1 a 3 - 02:08
  15. Contrapunctus inversus 13.2 a 3 - 02:16
  16. 14. Canon alla Ottava - 02:20
  17. 15. Canon alla Decima in Contrapunto alla Terza - 04:16
  18. 16. Canon alla Duodecima in Contrapunto alla Quinta - 01:59
  19. 17. Canon per augmentationem in Contrario Motu - 08:03
  20. 18. Fuga a 3 Soggetti (Contrapunctus 14) - 07:18

reception

The review for Spiegel Online , in the Joachim Kronsbein Bach's Art of Fugue a . a. Calls "a tricky, elaborate work of almost mathematically decipherable beauty", closes with the plazet:

"A recording for connoisseurs, for the happy few who will enjoy judging details and the overall conception and arguing extensively."

- Joachim Kronsbein : Spiegel Online

With a few days of latency, Klassik Akzente came to a similarly benevolent judgment :

"A gem of his artist discography and at the same time a worthy debut on his new label Deutsche Grammophon."

- Classic accents

At a concert that followed about a month after the album was released, Wolfram Goertz recorded for Die Zeit :

"As in his current CD recording (DGG 477 7345), Aimard plays warming, loving, serving and in places excitingly beautiful."

- Wolfram Goertz : ZEIT ONLINE

Six years later, the recording was positively received, as shown in a review of Aimard's current work with a cumulative summary:

"The criticism showered him with praise for this, with praise for the transparency, the intellectual clarity and, last but not least, the modesty with which he approached this opus magnum."

- Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pierre-Laurent Aimard - A flight of fancy, a dream. In: Klassikakzente.de. January 16, 2008, accessed September 3, 2018 .
  2. ^ Joachim Kronsbein: Classic day ticket: Risk with Bach. In: Spiegel Online . January 9, 2008, accessed September 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Wolfram Goertz: Sudoku on the piano. In: ZEIT ONLINE . February 14, 2008, accessed September 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Pierre-Laurent Aimard - A special challenge. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . August 19, 2014, accessed September 3, 2018 .