Classical music is often described as “pure”, “timeless” and “intellectual”, three epithets guaranteed to make most music-lovers reach for the off button in panic. Fortunately they’re not true. If ...
Contrapunctus 14 maakt deel uit van Die Kunst Der Fuge, een verzameling fuga’s (meerstemmige muziekstukken met gevarieerde herhaling, red). Niet bepaald zomaar een riedeltje van zomaar een componist. ...
"Contrapunctus Eleven (XI)," from Bach's "Art of the Fugue," performed by the Emerson String Quartet. It's music from their latest CD.
He continued with a poetic clarity akin to that of the piece itself. On the fact that it is unfinished: he cited the note by CPE Bach that “at this point [during Contrapunctus 14] the composer died”.
Earlier this month we hipped our readers to a wild mashup put together by Vulfpeck band leader Jack Stratton. The always inventive Stratton has shared his latest project and this time he uses a ...
En Johann Sebastian Bach culmina una de las grandes tradiciones de la música europea: la escuela contrapuntística del norte de Alemania. Su arte de la fuga, de la variación y de la elaboración coral ...