Musical Offering

Album by Johann Sebastian Bach & Barthold Kuijken & Sigiswald Kuijken & Wieland Kuijken & Robert Kohnen & Gustav Leonhardt

The Musical Offering is a collection of contrapuntal works by German composer Johann Sebastian Bach, composed in 1747. Built around a short theme presented to Bach, the work explores intricate counterpoint—including canons and a large-scale fugue—and represents one of his late-career experiments in learned contrapuntal forms that influenced later approaches to counterpoint in Western art music.
First released: 1985

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Musical Offering: Ricercare a 3
    5:51
  2. 2.
    Musical Offering: Canon Perpetuus
    1:01
  3. 3.
    Musical Offering: Canones diversi
    7:09
  4. 4.
    Musical Offering: Fuga Canonica
    2:03
  5. 5.
    Musical Offering: Ricercare a 6
    9:07
  6. 6.
    Musical Offering: Canon a 2
    1:09
  7. 7.
    Musical Offering: Canon a 4
    1:53
  8. 8.
    Musical Offering: Sonata a flauto traverso
    16:51
  9. 9.
    Musical Offering: Canon perpetuus, contrario motu
    2:03

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