Jordi Savall, Hesperion XXI - Johann Sebastian Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge (2001)
Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI - Johann Sebastian Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 459 Mb | Total time: 45:28+46:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: AliaVox | # AV9818 | Recorded: 1986
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 459 Mb | Total time: 45:28+46:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: AliaVox | # AV9818 | Recorded: 1986
In his very favorable review of the Musical Offering, colleague Dan Davis noted how Savall's unique arrangement of the movements augments the performance's overall impact by forming a structurally sound symmetrical "arch" from beginning to end. Here Savall similarly rethinks the structural possibilities of the work, though his organizational choices function primarily as a means to enrich the impression of the fugues' varied sonorities and contrapuntal textures. Tempos also are generally very reserved, reminiscent of Davis' description of those in the Musical Offering as "startling in their slowness".
However, when compared to the only other period-instrument chamber performance of the Art of Fugue that also incorporates both winds and strings (Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano), Savall's vision seems even more curiously focused. For instance, not only is the use of keyboard continuo eschewed, but Savall also structures the ensemble groupings more rigidly, distinctly separating the winds and strings in non-tutti movements. This, combined with Savall's inordinately slow tempos heightens the work's sense of grandeur, making Bach's architectural elements seem more powerfully deliberate. Alessandrini takes an almost exactly opposite, though no less distinguished and worthy approach. Tempos are much more sprightly (he completes the work nearly 20 minutes faster), the instrumentation is more freely combined and more colorfully varied, and of course since director Alessandrini also is a noted harpsichordist, his keyboard role features prominently.–John Greene
Performer:
Hespèrion XXI
Jordi Savall, direction
Track List:
CD1:
01. Contrapunctus 1
02. Contrapunctus 2
03. Contrapunctus 3
04. Contrapunctus 12a
05. Contrapunctus 12b
06. Contrapunctus 4
07. Canon 17 alla Duodecima in Contrapunto alla Quinta
08. Canon 16 alla Decima Contrapunto alla Terza
09. Contrapunctus 5
10. Contrapunctus 6 in Stylo Francese
11. Contrapunctus 7 per Augment. et Diminut.
CD2:
01. Contrapunctus 8
02. Contrapunctus 9 alla Duodecima
03. Contrapunctus 10 alla Decima
04. Contrapunctus 13b inversus
05. Contrapunctus 13a
06. Contrapunctus 11
07. Canon 14 per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu
08. Canon 15 alla Ottava
09. Contrapunctus 18 Fuga a 3 Soggetti
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Jordi Savall, Hesperion XXI - Johann Sebastian Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge (2001)
