The pairing of Bach’s unfinished composition with Webern’s spare pieces for string quartet works well, although background noise takes the shine off The three works for string quartet by Anton Webern ...

The Art of Fugue, J.S. Bach's last work, left incomplete at his death, is a kind of summa in which the composer gave a final overview of the contrapuntal techniques that could be used in fugal ...

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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Bach's unfinished fugue from the Art of Fugue(Public Domain) Bach's Art of Fugue is one of his more ...

He continued with a poetic clarity akin to that of the piece itself. On the fact that it is unfinished: he cited the note by CPE Bach that “at this point [during Contrapunctus 14] the composer died”.

A starry sky of counterpoint awaits us at the concert by the string quartet Les Récréations in the Schlosskirche, a historic gem in the heart of Stuttgart. The French ensemble was recently awarded the ...

How string quartets engage with the musical challenges and opportunities of performing ‘old’ four-part music – whether Purcell’s Fantasias or The Art of Fugue – depends largely on how a perception of ...

Lucie Skeaping delves into the riddles that lie behind Bach's late great masterpiece the Art of Fugue. Considered to be the definitive exploration of musical counterpoint, there are still many ...

(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue' Les inAttendus Vincent Lhermet, Accordion Marianne Muller, Viola da gamba Alice Pierot, Baroque violin There’s a strange blend, sometimes remarkably so, to ...

Whether Bach ever envisaged such a concert presentation is highly unlikely, since this systematic, 75-minute cycle of fugues and canons is all constructed on one theme and all in the key of D minor.