#fugal

Bach’s marvellous unfinished fugue from Kunst der Fuge, featuring his signature BACH motif using German musical notation. Played by the great Helmut Walcha. 

Another astonishing recording of Bach’s magnum opus, The Art of the Fugue. In this work, Bach took a simple theme in D Minor and expanded it to supreme intellectual and even spiritual heights (listen to the mournful Contrapunctus 14). Even though CPE Bach brought some romanticism to the abrupt ending of this work (claiming Bach had died before he could complete the last fugue), we still get the sense of an aging, ill composer struggling to complete his life’s work, a testament of his method and musical thoughts for the generations to come. The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields uses a variety of instruments, from the violin to the oboe, from the harpsichord to the organ, bringing this astonishing work to life. 

Gert van Hoef plays Liszt’s haunting Prelude and Fugue on the theme B.A.C.H. This theme originally came from the pen of none other than Johann Sebastian Bach, most famously in his Art of Fugue. The last fugue involves his own surname, in which H in German notation stands for B natural. Evidently Franz Liszt, like many other composers, became so enamoured with this theme that he extemporised upon it himself. 

Nicolas de Grigny’s Fugue à 5, also played by Christophe Mantoux. 

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The third prelude from my current working project, Praeludium Harmoniai. This movement utilizes fugal elements in a modal context.

Fugal - B1. Parallels [Full Stream] by secondnature was liked on Soundcloud.

[Self-Released, 2018]