Johann Sebastian Bach – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080 – Cedric Pescia (2014) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Johann Sebastian Bach – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080 – Cedric Pescia (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:39:03 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | Digital Booklet | © Aeon/Outhere Music France
Recorded: 18-19 June 2013, Studio Teldex, Berlin

Harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt said that Bach had written his Art of Fugue for himself, without thought of performing it on any instrument in particular. In the presence of a speculative work, every musician is free to chisel the perfect lines of polyphony as he or she chooses. Up to the final canon, which continues to pose the question of its incompletion. It is the Franco-Swiss pianist Cédric Pescia, with his subtle, understated playing, who will make this sublime score sing. But he will do so on an untempered piano, which is hardly banal! After a first æon disc devoted to Cage, which created a tremendous stir, Cédric Pescia deploys a low-key art in Bach, a sense of rhythm combined with a rubato of extreme subtlety and an inventiveness in the phrasings and ornaments, both flowing and sharp, that have no equivalent in the discography. Such relief, such life!

Tracklist:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080
1. Contrapunctus 1 04:31
2. Contrapunctus 2 02:56
3. Contrapunctus 3 04:52
4. Contrapunctus 4 03:01
5. Canon alla Ottava 02:05
6. Contrapunctus 5 05:48
7. Contrapunctus 6 a 4 in Stylo Francese 05:44
8. Contrapunctus 7 a 4 per Augmentationem et Diminutionem 03:38
9. Canon alla Decima in Contrapunto alla Terza 07:28
10. Contrapunctus 8 a 3 06:18
11. Contrapunctus 9 a 4 alla Duodecima 02:33
12. Contrapunctus 10 a 4 06:48
13. Contrapunctus 11 a 4 06:32
14. Canon alla Duodecima in Contrapunto alla Quinta 02:19
15. Contrapunctus Inversus 12a a 4 04:16
16. Contrapunctus Inversus 12b a 4 04:04
17. Contrapunctus Inversus 13a a 3 02:16
18. Contrapunctus Inversus 13b a 3 02:29
19. Canon per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu 10:02
20. Fuga a 3 Soggetti 11:33