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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.
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The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - later version of the original print edited by Christoph Wolff (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - earlier version edited by Christoph Wolff (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Christoph Classen, Producer, Recording Producer - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tobias Lehmann, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christoph Wolff, Contributor, Work Editor - Marita Prohmann, Producer
℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Album review
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.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 21 track(s)
- Total length: 01:23:36
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Pierre-Laurent Aimard
- Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
- Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
- Genre: Classical
© 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin ℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
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