Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge / Aapo Häkkinen

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Label
Ondine
Release Date
April 19, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Johann Sebastian Bach
    • PERFORMER
      Aapo Hakkinen
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 19, 2024
    • UPC
      761195143728
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ODE 1437-2
    • LABEL
      Ondine
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Contrapunctus I

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Aapo Häkkinen

    2. Contrapunctus III

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Aapo Häkkinen

    3. Contrapunctus II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Aapo Häkkinen

    4. Contrapunctus IV

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Aapo Häkkinen

    5. Contrapunctus V

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Aapo Häkkinen

    6. Contrapunctus IX a 4 alla Duodecima

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Aapo Häkkinen

    7. Contrapunctus X a 4 alla Decima

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Aapo Häkkinen

    8. Contrapunctus VI a 4 in Stylo Francese

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Aapo Häkkinen

    9. Contrapunctus VII a 4 per Augmentationem et Diminutionem

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Aapo Häkkinen

    10. Contrapunctus VIII a 3

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Aapo Häkkinen

    11. Contrapunctus XI

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Aapo Häkkinen

    12. Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue), BWV 1080: Contrapunctus XII a 4, inversus (arr. M. Little and S. Napper for viol ensemble)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Les Voix Humaines

    13. Contrapunctus XIII a 3, inversus

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Anna Gebert, Aapo Häkkinen

    14. Canon II, alla Ottava

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Aapo Häkkinen

    15. Canon III, alla Decima in Contrapunto alla Terza

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Aapo Häkkinen

    16. Canon IV, alla Duodecima in Contrapunto alla Quinta

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Aapo Häkkinen

    17. Canon I, per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Aapo Häkkinen


“[Bach] speaks to us in his work in such clear terms that we may quite well call these fugues poems. (…) These have warmth, quiet joy, love. And running through all the poems, dressed in different guises, is the main theme, creating order, binding the work as a whole together: it is a safe bond in all its diversity. Over all lies the proximity of death.” (Enzio Forsblom)

In this new recording, Bach’s final magnum opus is played by Aapo Häkkinen on a harpsichord built in 1614 by Andreas Ruckers the Elder (1579–?1652) and which belonged to the composer John Blow (1649–1708), organist of Westminster Abbey and former teacher of Henry Purcell. A tradition exists that G.F. Handel had also played this harpsichord.