Bach: Art of Fugue
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Music CD Cover Composer: Bach Performer: Pierre-Laurent Aimard Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2008-03-11 Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Bach: Art of Fugue Album
Free Music Review: Clarity
Hit: 5 Stars
I am not a musicologist, but I am someone who has listened to quite a few performance of the Art of the Fugue over the last 45 years and I can say that I find the Aimard performance to be among the very best. I did carefully examine the review be Villegem and also looked, in detail, at his many other reviews. He is obviously a discerning and well informed person, but I simply find his review of this breathtaking performance, at best, academic in the worst sense of the word. If Aimard's technique fails to conform to the scholarly work of several musicologists, what difference does that really make? Can we say with certainty that that is true? I very much doubt it.
We are separated by a vast gulf of time between the writing of this music and now. Who knows how Bach would have preferred to have the Kunst der Fuge performed? Who is to say that even his conception and personal style is the best for this music? How we listen and enjoy music is very subjective. I haven't found the performances of Copland's music conducted by the composer to be the best. The same holds for Stravinsky. I do know that Aimard's performance is like light penetrating the massive complexity of this work. The end of the final fugue is truly a moment of immense and cosmic proportions. This performance is very very highly recommended.