Rockford Symphony Orchestra kicks off this season’s Chamber Series with Bach’s Art of the Fugue, Sunday afternoon.
Bach’s “The Art of Fugue” was one of the baroque master’s final works, one of his more complex, and also one of the more mysterious. Guest musicians Dana Robinson and Charlotte Mattax Moersch, organ ...
The music of J.S. Bach rarely finds its way onto the ballet stage, and even less when accompanied by the pipe organ. However, Bach Society Houston director Rick Erickson and New York City’s SYREN ...
Bach's “The Art of the Fugue” doesn't arouse religious awe the way his "St. Matthew Passion" might. It lacks the playful changes in mood and tempo that make the “Goldberg Variations” so joyful and ...
The long-awaited finale in the four-year Bach Odyssey that Angela Hewitt began in 2016 presents the composer's ultimate and final masterpiece, The Art of Fugue. Hewitt brings new revelations to Bach ...
No-one knows quite how the master intended his final studies in counterpoint to be performed, or even on what instrument(s), but in this superlative pianist’s hands the sequence makes total sense – ...
The ASPECT Foundation for Music & Arts presents J.S. Bach: The Art of Fugue on Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. at The Italian Academy, part of the foundation's second New York City season of ...
In the last years of his life, J.S. Bach embarked on a daunting project: a cycle of fugues and canons, about 80 minutes in length, entirely derived from a single cellular strand of melody. He ...
The news Sunday afternoon was a prodigious live performance of arguably the least performable and unarguably greatest contrapuntal exercise in the history of music, Bach’s “The Art of the Fugue,” by ...
J.S. Bach's final work, The Art of Fugue, is a masterpiece of baroque composition. Representing the culmination of Bach's abilities as a contrapuntal composer, it also serves as a message (and an ...