The Amernet String Quartet will perform one of Bach’s most monumental and perplexing works with the St. Andrew’s Bach Society on Sunday, Aug. 25. Bach left no performance instructions for “The Art of ...
There’s no absolute reason why Bach’s profound and abstract masterwork (which mostly, if not entirely, has the feel of keyboard music) won’t work when played by a modern-style string quartet. But this ...
In the last years of his life, J.S. Bach embarked on a daunting project: a cycle of fugues and canons, about 80 minutes in length, entirely derived from a single cellular strand of melody. He ...
The Richter String Ensemble performing J.S. Bach’s “The Art of Fugue,” reviewed Friday at Barrister Winery as part of Northwest BachFest. Ever since Zuill Bailley assumed the role of artistic director ...
The Delgani String Quartet returns to Salem on Sunday, Jan. 22, with “Art of the Fugue.” A fugue is a composition where a short melody is introduced by one part, then taken up by others and developed ...
The chorale that brings Arthur Honegger's Second Symphony to its conclusion harbors special significance. This piece, composed between Nov. 1940 and Oct. 1941, is a moving document from a period of ...
In the last decade of his life, from 1740 to 1750, Johann Sebastian Bach abandoned the furious pace of composition he had maintained for over 30 years and concentrated his creative energies largely on ...
The London music season, which will be almost violent in its competitive activity, began to-night at Queen's Hall with the first performance in England of Bach's "The Art of Fugue", in the orchestral ...
The music world celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Juilliard Quartet today. Host Fred Child talks with the quartet's first violinist, Joel Smirnoff. And, from a 1987 Juilliard Quartet recording, ...
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