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There was a time when scholarship was not even certain what instrument or combination thereof the Art of the Fugue was written for, or if it wasn’t written for any specific instrument at all and a ...

Part I of the series "Glenn Gould Plays Bach" is devoted to Bach's "Art of Fugue." Gould's performance is followed by a lively repartee with Monsaingeon, in which the pianist provides dazzling ...

During the late 1970s, Glenn Gould and filmmaker and musician Bruno Monsaingeon planned an extensive series of television films on the music of Bach. Broadcast between 1979 and 1981, the three films ...

Organ virtuoso Joan Lippincott plays J. S. Bach's "The Art of Fugue." A highlight of the Westminster Choir College 2008 Bach Festival was organ virtuoso Joan Lippincott's performance of J. S. Bach's ...

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 ...

Our view of a composer is a mosaic, whose tiles are the insights drawn from hearing dozens, perhaps hundreds, of performances — in concert, through headphones, in our memory. Every musician — every ...

The Emerson Quartet plays the Contrapunctus No. 11. It's from the quartet's new recording of the Art of the Fugue by Bach.

Next Saturday evening (November 1), my son Sam and his brilliant colleague, pianist and harpsichordist Ralitza Patcheva, will be performing the complete “Art of the Fugue” by JS Bach in Washington DC ...