Musical Offering

Album by Johann Sebastian Bach & London Festival Orchestra & Ross Pople

Musical Offering is a collection of contrapuntal pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, composed and published in 1747. It comprises a series of canons and fugues derived from a single thematic subject and exemplifies Bach's late Baroque exploration of counterpoint, fugal technique and thematic transformation, placing it within the composer's late output and the wider study of advanced contrapuntal composition.
First released: 1995

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Musical Offering BWV 1079: Ricercar a 3
    5:55
  2. 2.
    Musical Offering BWV 1079: Canon 1 a 2 cancrizans
    1:04
  3. 3.
    Musical Offering BWV 1079: Canon 2 a 2 violini in unisono
    0:52
  4. 4.
    Musical Offering BWV 1079: Canon 3 a 2 per motum contrarium
    0:36
  5. 5.
    Musical Offering BWV 1079: Canon 4 a 2 per augmentationem, contrario motu
    1:49
  6. 6.
    Musical Offering BWV 1079: Canon 5 a 2 per tonos
    2:32
  7. 7.
    Musical Offering BWV 1079: Canon 6 : Fuga canonica in epidiapente
    1:58
  8. 8.
    Musical Offering BWV 1079: Sonata for Flute, Violin and Continuo: I.. Largo
    6:42
  9. 9.
    Musical Offering BWV 1079: Sonata for Flute, Violin and Continuo: II. Allegro
    5:43
  10. 10.
    Musical Offering BWV 1079: Sonata for Flute, Violin and Continuo: III. Andante
    2:26
  11. 11.
    Musical Offering BWV 1079: Sonata for Flute, Violin and Continuo: IV. Allegro
    3:14
  12. 12.
    Musical Offering BWV 1079: Canon 7 : Perpetuus super thema regium
    1:02
  13. 13.
    Musical Offering BWV 1079: Canon 8 : Perpetuus
    1:53
  14. 14.
    Musical Offering BWV 1079: Canon 9 a 2
    0:50
  15. 15.
    Musical Offering BWV 1079: Canon 10 a 4
    3:06
  16. 16.
    Musical Offering BWV 1079: Ricercar a 6
    6:33

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