Masaaki Suzuki – J. S. Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Masaaki Suzuki – J. S. Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:37:00 minutes | 2,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Art of Fugue emerges as the central instrumental project of the last decade of Bach’s life, after a gradual development over several years: the exploration in depth and with an overflowing musical imagination of the contrapuntal possibilities inherent in a single musical subject. In this work, the theoretical component of Bach’s thinking is at its clearest: theory and practice merge, old and new stylistic elements and compositional techniques are integrated and demonstrate in an incomparable way his individual approach to composition. Since Bach gave no indication of the instrument, nor does his writing shed any further light on the subject, one might even wonder whether this work is a purely theoretical work, intended solely for musical analysis. However, since the composer’s rediscovery in the nineteenth century, musicians have appropriated the work, whatever their instrument. It is now generally accepted that the work was composed for the keyboard. A second harpsichord part is added for three fugues, played here by Masato Suzuki. After several acclaimed recordings of Bach’s works for keyboard instruments, Masaaki Suzuki finally takes on this immense work, the pinnacle of the cantor’s art and one of the absolute peaks of Western music.

Tracklist:
1-1. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus I (03:32)
1-2. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus II (03:07)
1-3. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus III (03:26)
1-4. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus IV (05:14)
1-5. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus V (03:46)
1-6. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus VI (in stylo Francese) (04:41)
1-7. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus VII (per augmentationem et diminutionem) (04:37)
1-8. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus VIII (07:25)
1-9. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus IX (alla duodecima) (03:08)
1-10. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus X (alla decima) (05:11)
1-11. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus XI (07:48)
1-12. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus inversus XII (Forma recta) [Version for Two Harpsichords] (02:12)
1-13. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus inversus XII (Forma inversa) [Version for Two Harpsichords] (02:13)
1-14. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus inversus XIII (Forma recta) [Version for Two Harpsichords] (02:16)
1-15. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus inversus XIII (Forma inversa) [Version for Two Harpsichords] (02:17)
1-16. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Canon alla Ottava (04:18)
1-17. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Canon alla decima (in contrapuncto alla terza) (04:43)
1-18. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Canon alla duodecima (in contrapuncto alla quinta) (04:00)
1-19. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Canon per augmentationem (in contrario motu) (04:59)
1-20. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Fuga inversa a 2 Clav (Forma recta) (02:18)
1-21. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Fuga inversa a 2 Clav (Forma inversa) (02:20)
1-22. Masaaki Suzuki – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080: Fuga a 3 Soggetti (09:02)
1-23. Masaaki Suzuki – Choral: Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV 668a (04:18)

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