Est 1923

Bach Art of Fugue. Mozart Fugues

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach

Genre:

Chamber

Label: Simax

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 65

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: PSC1135

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 9 (a 4, alla Duodecima) Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Phantasm
(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 10 (a 4, alla Decima) Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Phantasm
(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 11 (a 4) Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Phantasm
(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Fuga (a 3 soggetti: incomplete) Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Phantasm
(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 1 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Phantasm
(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 2 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Phantasm
(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 3 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Phantasm
(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapumctus 4 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Phantasm
(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 5 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Phantasm
(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 6 (a 4, im Stile francese) Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Phantasm
(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 7 (a 4, per Augmentationem et Diminu Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Phantasm
(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 8 (a 3) Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Phantasm
(5) Fugues Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Phantasm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Fugue Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Phantasm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Seeing that we tolerate, indeed even enjoy Bach and Mozart on a modern piano – an instrument of course outside their time-frame – should we demur at their music being played on an equally anachronistic consort of viols? Leaving aside the argument advanced in Laurence Dreyfus’s booklet-note that much viol consort music was fugal in texture anyway, the fact is that the contrapuntal lines here emerge with great clarity and with a subtlety of timbre, articulation and dynamics beyond even the ablest keyboard player, thanks to Phantasm’s accomplished and expressive performances. The group offers the first 11 contrapuncti (fugues on the subject rectus, inversus or combined with its own augmentation or diminution, and double fugues), without the canons or mirror fugues, but plus the final uncompleted chef d’oeuvre that was to have crowned the awesome project; about Phantasm’s playing there is no mere atmosphere of transcendental science, however, and it allows new insights into Bach’s prodigious mind.
In his transcriptions for string quartet of fugues from the 48 (putting one a semitone down for convenience), Mozart – who, it is reported, constantly had Bach’s volume lying open on his piano – made a few small adjustments to details of rhythm and part-writing; and the process also fired him to write several fugues of his own, including the one in G minor (for piano solo or duet) here. The Phantasm ensemble, despite a slight tendency to hurry, brings a smile to one’s lips by its intonation, precision and, above all, musicality.'

Bach Art of Fugue. Mozart Fugues

(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 9 (a 4, alla Duodecima)

(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 10 (a 4, alla Decima)

(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 11 (a 4)

(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Fuga (a 3 soggetti: incomplete)

(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 1

(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 2

(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 3

(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapumctus 4

(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 5

(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 6 (a 4, im Stile francese)

(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 7 (a 4, per Augmentationem et Diminu

(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 8 (a 3)

(5) Fugues

Fugue

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