The Art of Fugue, BWV1080 (Bach)
from Bach: The Art of Fugue (CDA67980)
1 Contrapunctus 1 [3'24]
2 Contrapunctus 2 [2'47]
3 Contrapunctus 3 [3'18]
4 Contrapunctus 4 [4'37]
5 Contrapunctus 5 [3'16]
6 Contrapunctus 6 'in stylo Francese' [5'34]
7 Contrapunctus 7 'per augmentationem et diminutionem' [4'39]
8 Contrapunctus 8 [6'07]
9 Contrapunctus 9 'alla duodecima' [2'49]
10 Contrapunctus 10 'alla decima' [5'38]
11 Contrapunctus 11 [7'03]
12 Contrapunctus 12 Rectus [3'15]
13 Contrapunctus 12 Inversus [3'08]
14 Contrapunctus 13 Rectus [2'22]
15 Contrapunctus 13 Inversus [2'24]
16 Canon per augmentationem in contrario motu [4'35]
17 Canon alla ottava [2'21]
18 Canon alla decima in contrapunto alla terza [4'52]
19 Canon alla duodecima in contrapunto alla quinta [2'23]
20 Contrapunctus 14 (Fuga a 3 soggetti) [9'54]
84 minutes 26 seconds 20 tracks
‘Hewitt’s account, characteristically, is clean and precise but always pianistic—she never seems, like some pianists, to be imitating a harpsichord, whereas her delicate touch means that the music is ...
The Times
‘Angela Hewitt only took The Art of Fugue into her repertoire in 2012, but it crowns—magnificently—her acclaimed Hyperion recordings of the complete keyboard works, reaffirming her position as ...