The Art of Fugue discography explained

This is a list of commercial recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue.

ArtistDateRecordingInstrument and remarks
1934 piano
1934–1935 string quartet (includes conjectural end played by Donald Tovey on keyboard)
1953 harpsichord
1954 2 pianos
1956 organ
1959 orchestra
1962 chamber ensemble
1962 piano and organ (incomplete)
1962 string quartet and woodwind quintet
1963 organ (on three chamber organs)
1965 orchestra
1965 orchestra (adapted for orchestra by Marcel Bitsch and Claude Pascal[1])
1965 orchestra
1966 orchestra
1967 piano
1969 harpsichord
1970 organ
1970 organ
1974 orchestra
1975 electronic version (incomplete)
? piano (early version)
1979 orchestra
1982 piano
1984 piano
Musica Antiqua Köln (director Reinhard Goebel) 1984 string quartet/harpsichord and various such instrumental combinations
1985 harpsichord
1985 string quartet
1986 orchestra
1987 brass quintet
1988 piano
1989 harpsichord (earlier version of the autograph score)
1989 string quartet[2]
1990 piano
1990 saxophone quartet
1991 orchestra
1992 piano
1992 organ
1992 organ
1993 organ
1993 organ (Silbermann organ of Saint Thomas Church, Strasbourg)
1994 harpsichords
1994 piano
1996 piano
1997 string quartet
1998 recorder quartet
Phantasm (director: Laurence Dreyfus) 1998 viola da gamba four-part consort
1998 orchestra
1999 organ. Some movements performed as a duet with Pierre Farago, on the Grenzing organ of Saint-Cyprien in Périgord, France
1999 harpsichord
2000 organ (on the Carsten Lund organ of the Garnisons Church, Copenhagen, Denmark)
2000 string quartet (arranged by composer Robert Simpson, including versions of Contrapuntus XIV unfinished and completed following Tovey's version)
2001 organ (on the Marcussen organ of Saint Hans Church, Odense, Denmark)
2001 piano
2002 two eight-string guitars
2002 consort of Viols
2002 orchestra
2003 string quartet
2003 harpsichord
2005 saxophone quartet
2005 wind quartet, brass quartet and organ
2006 harpsichord
2006 fortepiano (using a fortepiano of Mozart type)[3]
2007 harpsichord (includes an additional CD-ROM with score to follow along as MP3s play)
2007 harpsichord (Christian Zell, 1728)
2008 electronic version
An electronic version by Jeffrey C Hall 2007?
2008 piano
2008 harpsichord
2009 harpsichords (on two harpsichords with voices shared equally throughout)
2011 orchestra
2014 piano
2015 string quartet/harpsichord and various such instrumental combinations
FM_Kantor 2016 Die Verkehrung der Fuge Yamaha DX7, Yamaha TX7 synthesizers[4]
Ensemble L'Arte della Fuga2016violin, viola, cello, bassoon, and contrabass
Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka, including her own completion to the final fugue 2017 piano[5]
Wolfgang Rubsam2017 Lautenwerk (lute-harpsichord)
2021 piano
2022 harpsichord

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Nonesuch HB-73013
  2. Web site: J.S.Bach – Juilliard String Quartet – die Kunst der Fuge . CD . 1992 . Discogs.
  3. Web site: J. S. Bach: The Art of the Fugue – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080 . www.niederfellabrunn.at.
  4. Web site: limited . https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/528683247252476/910800492374081 . 2022-04-30. FM_Kantor on Facebook . Facebook.
  5. Web site: video.