Twitching In Left Leg

[Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. © Matthias Heyde]

A Bach death overtook him in the summer of 1750 while working in the printing of a wide collection of instrumental pieces. It was his son Carl Philip Emanuel and a friend family, Johann Heinrich Schübler, who were responsible to complete the edition, published the following year. On the last page, a triple fugue is unfinished with just the appearance of the theme BACH (B flat, la, do, whether natural in Germanic notation.) At the bottom, Emanuel writes: "He was writing this fugue, where the name BACH appears in the countersubject, when the author died."

The appointment of the child is quickly used for all kinds of legends, that multiplied during Romanticism to build it all a myth: the genius of the dead with fingers still stained with ink, fighting to the last breath with his most formidable creature could not tame at all. The modern musicological investigations have revealed that the reality was more prosaic: the work was completely finished, but in the editing process missed the last page. Outside

one way or another, the fact is that The Art of Fugue , so the collection will end titles (without it being clear that the original was the old name Bach), was considered a long time testament to the great musician, but even this idea should be qualified, since we now know with certainty that in 1742 the teacher had already completed a portion of the work. Since the publication was made by separate voices, the myth also reached to the conclusion that in fact it was a purely theoretical and speculative work, which Bach wrote for his interpretation, but for reading. Some, however, that reveal details The Art of Fugue was written no doubt keyboard.

In any case, the type of writing Bach, classical heritage of Renaissance polyphony to four voices, with instrumental allows different interpretations. The work consists of four and fourteen canons written leakage from a simple theme in D minor: four simple leak, three inverted responses, two doubles, two triples and two more Mirror fugue unfinished, which may originally be conceived as fourfold.

The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin has set the fees by dividing each of the sections and left for the final flight as it was incomplete in the edition princeps . In the tradition of twentieth Hespèrion or Italian Concerto, orchestral version comes with many different instrumental combinations and includes woods next to the rope, which is separated from that of Musica Antiqua Köln , only with strings, which, however, connected by a spirit of radical inquiry into the structure of each piece, which penetrates extremely articulate language, perhaps not as awn as Goebel Group, but with the same obsessive desire to clarify the polyphonic fabric.
[ Diario de Sevilla. 12/03/2011 ]

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
(1685-1750): DIE KUNST DER FUGE
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

1. Choral Aus tiefer Not the Cantata BWV 38
2. Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080 ----------

HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 902064 [77'41'']
Recording: October 2009


Bach: Contrapunctus 18, The Art of Fugue . [9'27''] Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin