Johann Sebastian Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge

Keller Quartett

Hungary’s prize-winning Keller Quartet, whose account of mentor György Kurtág’s Musik für Streichinstrumente received the highest praise internationally, now focuses upon baroque music with a revelatory performance of Bach’s The Art of Fugue "The Keller Quartet take an experimental approach to Bach", writes Hans Klaus Jungheinrich, "inclining less to long lines than to ‘respiratory’ phrasing." The music breathes, yes, and the Keller Quartet’s interpretation of Die Kunst der Fuge will be one of the most talked-about Bach performances of the year.

Featured Artists Recorded

May 1997, Stadttheater Eichstätt

Original Release Date

02.06.1998

  • Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080
    (Johann Sebastian Bach)
  • 1Contrapunctus 104:01
  • 2Contrapunctus 202:19
  • 3Contrapunctus 303:41
  • 4Contrapunctus 402:40
  • 5Contrapunctus 503:05
  • 6Contrapunctus 6 a 4 in Stylo Franchese03:05
  • 7Contrapunctus 7 a 4 per Augmentationem et Diminutionem03:43
  • 8Contrapunctus 8 a 305:48
  • 9Contrapunctus 9 a 4 alla Duodecima02:10
  • 10Contrapunctus 10 a 4 alla Decima04:10
  • 11Contrapunctus 11 a 405:40
  • 12Contrapunctus 12 a 402:15
  • 13Contrapunctus Inversus 12 a 402:16
  • 14Contrapunctus 13 a 301:58
  • 15Contrapunctus Inversus 13 a 301:59
  • 16Canon per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu03:59
  • 17Canon alla Ottava01:56
  • 18Canon alla Decima Contrapunto alla Terza04:31
  • 19Canon alla Duodecima Contrapunto alla Quinta02:03
  • 20Contrapunctus 1410:32