Name: Bach, J.S.: Art of Fugue by Pierre-laurent Aimard
Brand: Pierre-Laurent Aimard
SKU: 028947773450
Price: 9.9 USD
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Rating: 3 (140 reviews)

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Die Kunst der Fuge: what a way to make your Deutsche Grammophon solo recording debut. That's especially true if you're Pierre-Laurent Aimard, whose full-time gig is with Pierre Boulez's Ensemble InterContemporain and whose reputation was made in the avant-garde and not the late Baroque.
This casting against type works in Aimard's favor. The intellectual cast of Bach's Art of the Fugue is perfect for a pianist who can play György Ligeti's etudes, and one would expect Aimard to deliver a reading of rare lucidity and crystalline virtuosity. But that he delves so deeply beneath the work's dense counterpoint to articulate the expressive art concealed by the music's technical brilliance is a pleasant surprise. Aimard's performances have not only the rigor of logic and rhetoric, they have the compulsion of drama. Recorded in translucent digital sound in the Mozart-Saal of Vienna's Konzerthaus, this recording deserves a wide audience, despite its apparent mismatch between performer and music.

Bach, J.S.: Art of Fugue

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1. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - Contrapunctus 1

2. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - Contrapunctus 2

3. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - Contrapunctus 3

4. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - Contrapunctus 4

5. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - Contrapunctus 5

6. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - Contrapunctus 6 a 4 in Stylo Francese

7. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - Contrapunctus 7. a 4 per Augmentationem et Diminutionem

8. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - Contrapunctus 8. a 3

9. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - Contrapunctus 9. a 4 alla Duodecima

10. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - Contrapunctus 10. a 4 alla Decima

11. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - Contrapunctus 11. a 4

12. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - Contrapunctus inversus 12a. a 4

13. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - Contrapunctus inversus 12b. a 4

14. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - Contrapunctus inversus 13a. a 3

15. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - Contrapunctus inversus 13b. a 3

16. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - 16. Canon alla Ottava

17. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - 17. Canon alla Decima in Contrappunto alla Terza

18. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - 18. Canon alla Duodecima in Contrappunto alla Quinta

19. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - 15. Canon per augmentationem in Contrario Motu

20. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - J.S. Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080 - Later Version Of The Original Print Edited By Christoph Wolff - 20. Fuga a 3 Soggetti (Contrapunctus 14)

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