Die Kunst der Fuge

Album by Johann Sebastian Bach & Liszt Ferenc Kamarazenekar & János Rolla

Die Kunst der Fuge is a collection of contrapuntal pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, published posthumously in 1751. The work systematically explores fugal and canonic techniques around a single principal subject, written in open score for unspecified instrumentation, and constitutes one of Bach's late, rigorous studies in counterpoint that has been widely studied in theory and composition.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Contrapunctus I
    3:57
  2. 2.
    Contrapunctus II
    3:02
  3. 3.
    Contrapunctus III
    3:06
  4. 4.
    Contrapunctus IV
    4:50
  5. 5.
    Contrapunctus V
    2:48
  6. 6.
    Contrapunctus VI
    4:29
  7. 7.
    Contrapunctus VII
    3:37
  8. 8.
    Contrapunctus VIII
    6:39
  9. 9.
    Contrapunctus IX
    2:23
  10. 10.
    Contrapunctus X
    3:41
  11. 11.
    Contrapunctus XI
    7:57

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Contrapunctus XII a
    2:25
  2. 3.
    Contrapunctus XII inversus
    2:12
  3. 4.
    Contrapunctus XIII a
    2:07
  4. 5.
    Contrapunctus CIII inversus
    2:12
  5. 6.
    Fuga a 2 Clavier
    2:07
  6. 7.
    Alio modo Fuga a 2 Clavier
    2:14
  7. 8.
    Fuga a 3 soggetti
    8:51
  8. 9.
    Canon per augmentationem in contrario Motu
    4:27
  9. 10.
    Canon alla Ottava
    3:56
  10. 11.
    Canon alla Decima. Contrapunto alla Terza
    6:30
  11. 12.
    Canon alla Duodecima in Contrapunto alla Quinta
    4:18

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