George Ritchie follows up his recordings of the complete Bach organ works with this magisterial performance of Bach’s late contrapuntal masterpiece The Art of Fugue.

The CD recording is accompanied by a generous selection of bonus tracks and, on the DVD, by a feature-length documentary and a detailed filmed lecture.

Featuring Christoph Wolff, Ralph Richards and Bruce Fowkes.

“The finest recording of Bach’s Art of Fugue irrespective of media or instrument.” Gramophone magazine, July 2010.

CD1
Richards, Fowkes, & Co., Opus 14
Pinnacle Presbyterian Church, Scottsdale, Arizona

1 Contrapunctus 1; 3:52
2 Contrapunctus 2; 3:32
3 Contrapunctus 3; 3:47
4 Contrapunctus 4; 5:29
5 Contrapunctus 5; 3:45
6 Contrapunctus 6, a 4 in Style Francese; 4:50
7 Contrapunctus 7, a 4 per Augmentationem
et Diminutionem; 4:15
8 Contrapunctus 8, a 3; 6:42
9 Contrapunctus 9, a 4 alla Duodecima; 3:56
10 Contrapunctus 10, a 4 alla Decima; 4:31
11 Contrapunctus 11, a 4 7:04
12 Contrapunctus inversus 12(1), a 4; 3:12
13 Contrapunctus inversus 12(2), a 4; 3:24
14 Contrapunctus inversus 13(1), a 3; 3:14
15 Contrapunctus inversus 13(2), a 3; 3:23
16 Canon alla Ottava; 6:08
17 Canon alla Decima in Contrapunto alla Terza; 5:23

CD1 Total Time: 1:16:37

CD2
Richards, Fowkes, & Co., Opus 14
Pinnacle Presbyterian Church, Scottsdale, Arizona

1 Canon alla Duodecima in Contrapunto alla Quinta; 4:40
2 Canon per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu; 4:49
3 Contrapunctus 14, Fuga a 3 Soggetti; 8:44
Additional Late Works
Taylor and Boody Organbuilders, Opus 9
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts

4 Vor deinen Thron tret’ ich hiermit BWV 668; 4:14
Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch, da
komm ich her BWV 769a a 2 claviers et pedale
5 Canone all’ ottava; 1:44
6 Canone alla quinta; 1:43
7 Canto fermo in canone; 3:36
8 Canone alla settima; 2:31
9 Canon per augmentationem; 3:17
Bedient Pipe Organ Co., Opus 8
Cornerstone, Lincoln, Nebraska

10 Ricercar a 6 (from Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079); 7:55
John Brombaugh & Associates, Opus 26
The Anton Heiller Memorial Organ
Church of Seventh-Day Adventists, Southern Adventist University,
Collegedale, Tennessee

Schübler Chorales
11 Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645; 4:28
12 Wo soll ich fliehen hin BWV 646; 1:58
13 Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten BWV 647; 4:01
14 Meine Seele erhebt den Herren BWV 648; 2:34
15 Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ BWV 649; 2:44
16 Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter BWV 650; 3:32
Richards, Fowkes, & Co., Opus 14
Pinnacle Presbyterian Church, Scottsdale, Arizona

17 Contrapunctus 14, Fuga a 3 Soggetti; 11:20
Completed by Helmut Walcha