SKU: CY.CC2682
J. S. Bach's massive work, The Art of Fugue, is a summation of his powers as a composer of contrapuntal music. Each fugue is a masterpiece in its own right. Number Fourteen is a four voice, double fugue that is an earlier version of Number Ten. It was included in the first edition of The Art of Fugue. About 3 minutes in length.
SKU: FG.55011-411-1
ISBN 9790550114111.
Kale vi Aho's completion of J. S. Bach's masterful Contrapunctus XIV from The Art of Fugue blends organically into the original 233-bar composition by Bach. Kalevi Aho's completion is a celebration of the fugue, as it would be had Bach completed it himself. The present edition is for open instrumentation. Parts for C-instruments, B-flat-instrument and E-flat-instruments are supplied. This is a suitable work for wind ensemble of four or more players. Kalevi Aho's completion of J. S. Bach's masterful Contrapunctus XIV from The Art of Fugue blends organically into the original 233-bar composition by Bach. Kalevi Aho's completion is a celebration of the fugue, as it would be had Bach completed it himself. The present edition is for open instrumentation. Parts for C-instruments, B-flat-instrument and E-flat-instruments are supplied. This is a suitable work for wind ensemble of four or more players. Kalevi Aho's completion of J. S. Bach's masterful Contrapunctus XIV from The Art of Fugue blends organically into the original 233-bar composition by Bach. Kalevi Aho's completion is a celebration of the fugue, as it would be had Bach completed it himself. The present edition is for open instrumentation. Parts for C-instruments, B-flat-instrument and E-flat-instruments are supplied. This is a suitable work for wind ensemble of four or more players.
SKU: HL.49006542
ISBN 9790001070942. UPC: 841886029484. 12.0x16.5x0.42 inches.
Written in the 1970s, Dieter Schnebel's arrangements of the Contrapuncti I, VI and XI from Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue have long since been considered classics of contemporary choral music and of the cultivation of Bach's music. The works, which have previously been available in manuscript editions only, are now published as new editions in a high-quality, easily legible notation in a convenient standard format which adequately displays the works' polyphony.
SKU: HL.49006541
ISBN 9790001070935. UPC: 841886029477. 12.0x16.5x0.427 inches.
SKU: PR.11441345S
UPC: 680160608829. 8.5 x 11 inches.
BACH-SHARDS was commissioned by the Brentano String Quartet as part of their Art of the Fugue companion-piece project. Ran deliberately stays within the realm of Bach-like vocabulary, altering syntax in ways that add up to something slightly different from the anticipated sum of the parts. The work builds up to a climax that makes the entry point into Bach’s Contrapunctus X seem thoroughly natural.While composing Bach-Shards I found myself gravitating, intuitively and gradually, toward a dual goal. First, though the tension and dissonance inherent in certain moments of Bach’s own maze-like contrapuntal structures could quite easily and naturally lead one into a pungent contemporary terrain, I opted not to stray outside the realm of Bach-like materials and harmonic language. Instead, it was my hope to alter their relationships and context in ways that add up to a something that’s slightly different than the anticipated sum of the parts. A mildly deconstructed Bach, if you will. The other important challenge I set for myself was building up the latter, toccata-like portion of Bach-Shards in a way that would make the entry point of the fugue which it precedes, Contrapunctus X, seem thoroughly natural. It was my intent to have the first fugal entrance feel like a huge and much welcome release of the energy created by my Prelude’s penultimate stretch, with its bravura figurations elaborating on an insistent dominant pedal point.
