J. S. Bach – The Art of the Fugue

With this new edition of “The Art of the Fugue”, the last instrumental masterwork of Bach, the Quartetto Bernini is proposing for the first time the filological execution of Bernini’s manuscript.

Precious and unique, this recording offers to the listener a new clarity, compared with the existing numerous versions, based on the first edition of print.

“The Art of the Fugue” is infact a complex work, where the inventive counterpoint of Bach is taken to the limit and in this edition Quartetto Bernini offers a particular lecture, next to the instrumental praxis of that epoche, also through the use of a splendid quartet of italian instuments, dated 16th/17th century.

TRACKLISTING:

• CONTRAPUNCTUS 1 (3:21)
• CONTRAPUNCTUS 3 (3:19)
• CONTRAPUNCTUS 2 (2:09)
• CONTRAPUNCTUS 5 (4:18)
• CONTRAPUNCTUS 9 ALLA DUODECIMA (8:21)
• CONTRAPUNCTUS 10A ALLA DECIMA (4:40)
• CONTRAPUNCTUS 6 IN STYLO FRANCESE (2:59)
• CONTRAPUNCTUS 7 PER AUGMENT ET DIMINUIT (2:40)
• CONTRAPUNCTUS 15 (CANON IN HYPODIAPASON ALL’OTTAVA) (A 2 VOCI) (2:21)
• CONTRAPUNCTUS 8 A 3 (4:43)
• CONTRAPUNCTUS 11 (3:59)
• CANON IN HYPODIATESSERON AL ROVESCIO ET PER AUGMENTATIONEM PERPETUUS (14A) (4:59)
• CONTRAPUNCTUS 12A (RECTUS) (1:51)
• CONTRAPUNCTUS 12B (1:54)
• CONTRAPUNCTUS 13A (RECTUS) (1:59)
• CONTRAPUNCTUS 13B (INVERSUS) (2:06)
• CANON AL ROVESCIO ET PER AUGMENTATIONEM (A2) (14) (6:27)
• FUGA A TRE SOGGETTI (INCOMPIUTA) (7:32)
• CHORAL (4:17)