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Bach's The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080, was apparently his final work, breaking off unfinished in what would have been a monumental final section. It is written in open score, with no indication of instrumentation, which has given rise to various solutions: performances exist for organ, harpsichord, orchestra, small ensemble, and even piano, an instrument Bach is known to have encountered in his last years. But there is no recording like this one, which takes the open score as an invitation to realize the work with further creative effort, arrangement even. From the total ensemble of two violins, viola, cello, organ, and harpsichord, harpsichordist and director Ottavio Dantone and his always unconventional Accademia Bizantina deploy different combinations of instruments in the 20 fugues and canons that make up the work. Accademia Bizantina is a period-instrument group, but it can't be called a historical-performance ensemble. There's no indication that The Art of the Fugue was ever played this way (the intermittent combination of organ and harpsichord is particularly ahistorical), and Dantone offers an abstract, expressive justification for his forces rather than a historical one: he writes of an "art of hidden emotions." There is no question that playing the work this way diminishes its abstract, study-like quality (it has been argued that Bach intended it as a kind of compendium of technique, not as a work for performance) and increases its expressive qualities. Each fugue sounds different. Whether Dantone succeeds in maintaining the work's coherence will be up to the ears of the individual listener, but the procession of sounds is anything but dull: the rocking and rolling sounds of the Accademia Bizantina strings, with a trio sonata-like texture, make a compelling contrast with the keyboard settings of some of the more elaborate fugues, and Dantone's punchy harpsichord makes a further contrast with the more cerebral organ. This is a bold experiment with one of the intellectual landmarks of classical music, and there will be listeners who are not disposed toward something like that. But try it -- you might really like it.
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Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080 - Arr. for Chamber Orchestra (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Roberto Chinellato, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Fabio Framba, Producer, Recording Producer - Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ottavio Dantone, Conductor, MainArtist - Hermann Diener, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
Albumbeschreibung
Bach's The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080, was apparently his final work, breaking off unfinished in what would have been a monumental final section. It is written in open score, with no indication of instrumentation, which has given rise to various solutions: performances exist for organ, harpsichord, orchestra, small ensemble, and even piano, an instrument Bach is known to have encountered in his last years. But there is no recording like this one, which takes the open score as an invitation to realize the work with further creative effort, arrangement even. From the total ensemble of two violins, viola, cello, organ, and harpsichord, harpsichordist and director Ottavio Dantone and his always unconventional Accademia Bizantina deploy different combinations of instruments in the 20 fugues and canons that make up the work. Accademia Bizantina is a period-instrument group, but it can't be called a historical-performance ensemble. There's no indication that The Art of the Fugue was ever played this way (the intermittent combination of organ and harpsichord is particularly ahistorical), and Dantone offers an abstract, expressive justification for his forces rather than a historical one: he writes of an "art of hidden emotions." There is no question that playing the work this way diminishes its abstract, study-like quality (it has been argued that Bach intended it as a kind of compendium of technique, not as a work for performance) and increases its expressive qualities. Each fugue sounds different. Whether Dantone succeeds in maintaining the work's coherence will be up to the ears of the individual listener, but the procession of sounds is anything but dull: the rocking and rolling sounds of the Accademia Bizantina strings, with a trio sonata-like texture, make a compelling contrast with the keyboard settings of some of the more elaborate fugues, and Dantone's punchy harpsichord makes a further contrast with the more cerebral organ. This is a bold experiment with one of the intellectual landmarks of classical music, and there will be listeners who are not disposed toward something like that. But try it -- you might really like it.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 20 track(s)
- Total length: 01:16:46
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Accademia Bizantina Ottavio Dantone
- Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
- Label: Decca Music Group Ltd.
- Genre: Klassiek
© 2017 Decca Music Group Limited, under exclusive license to Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc ℗ 2017 Accademia Bizantina
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