Title: Bach: The Art of Fugue Artist: Phantasm Label: Linn Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 691062075923 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2025-03-14 Number of Discs: 1
The Art of Fugue is Bach's final composition and one of his most challenging. In this album Phantasm and it's director Laurence Dreyfus showcase all the hidden beauties of the composer's magnum opus, arguably the pinnacle of the fugue genre. Printed in open score, the format allows a rendition on viols, as recorded here. Brimming with rich counterpoint and dynamic conversation among the parts, the work can legitimately claim a place within the consort repertoire. Bach manages to paint a finely delineated set of contrasting musical portraits full of revelations and surprises. Far from an academic encyclopaedia of arcane musical techniques, The Art of Fugue thus embarks on a (unfinished) voyage of discovery shared by an inveterate explorer whose thirst for invention knows no bounds. Organist Daniel Hyde performs four movements in this welcome follow-up to Phantasm's acclaimed Well-Tempered Consort series.
Tracks: 1.1 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Contrapunctus 1 1.2 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Contrapunctus 2 1.3 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Contrapunctus 3 1.4 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Contrapunctus 4 1.5 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Canon per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu 1.6 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Contrapunctus 5 1.7 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Contrapunctus 6 "in Stylo Francese" 1.8 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Contrapunctus 7 per Augmentationem et Diminutionem 1.9 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Canon alla Ottava 1.10 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Contrapunctus 8 a3 1.11 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Contrapunctus 9 alla Duodecima 1.12 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Contrapunctus 10 alla Decima 1.13 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Contrapunctus 11 1.14 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Canon alla Decima. Contrapunto alla Terza 1.15 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Contrapunctus 12 Rectus 1.16 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Contrapunctus 12 Inversus 1.17 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Canon alla Duodecima in Contrapunto alla Quinta 1.18 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Contrapunctus 13 a4 Rectus 1.19 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Contrapunctus 13 a4 Inversus 1.20 Art of Fugue, BWV 1080~Fuga a 3 Soggetti (Incomplete)
