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JS Bach - The Art of Fugue | First Hand Records FHR095

JS Bach - The Art of Fugue

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Label: First Hand Records

Cat No: FHR095

Barcode: 5060216343495

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 28th February 2020

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About

The greatest Bach player of her generation, Russian pianist Tatyana Nikolayeva delivered this incredible live performance just a few months before her death. This recording is published for the first time on FHR, with the kind permission of the Tatyana Nikolayeva estate. This is one of the last recordings of Nikolayeva.

Although The Art of Fugue work was long thought to have been written on Bach’s deathbed, recent research has shown that he was working on it during the early 1740s. The autograph from this time comprises fourteen movements (twelve fugues and two canons), but at the end of his life Bach revised the unpublished work adding two fugues and two canons. Engraving of the plates for publication began during the last months of Bach’s life and he was able to proof read some of them albeit with failing eyesight. However, when the work was published at the end of 1751 Bach was already dead and the last fugue left incomplete.

In creating his The Art of Fugue Bach proved that he was master of the form but in the hands of a musically intuitive interpreter such as Tatyana Nikolayeva it becomes one of the masterpieces of a world genius.

1993 Sibelius Academy Recital, Helsinki

Reviews

Her artistry in this Helsinki concert is consummate… she makes this long musical journey an intensely beguiling experience.  Michael Church (Historical Choice)
BBC Music Magazine June 2020

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