RELEASE JANUARY 2014
AECD 1333 Johann Sebastian Bach Die Kunst der Fuge Cédric Pescia, piano 2 CD’s – Timing CD1: 40’06 – CD2: 59’10 – Total time: 99’16 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 ÆON · Outhere S.A. · Rue du Chêne 27 · B-1000 Brussels (Belgium) tel. : +32 2 373 82 00 · fax : +32 2 373 82 09 Sales & marketing : dominic@outhere-music.com · communication : julien@outhere-music.com info@outhere-music.com
RELEASE JANUARY 2014 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 Die Kunst der Fuge . l’Art de la fugue CD1 1) Contrapunctus 1 2) Contrapunctus 2 3) Contrapunctus 3 4) Contrapunctus 4 5) Canon alla ottava 6) Contrapunctus 5 7) Contrapunctus 6 a 4 in stylo francese 8) Contrapunctus 7 a 4 per augmentationem et diminutionem 9) Canon alla decima in contrapunto alla terza CD2 1) Contrapunctus 8 a 3 2) Contrapunctus 9 a 4 alla duodecima 3) Contrapunctus 10 a 4 4) Contrapunctus 11 a 4 5) Canon alla duodecima in contrapunto alla quinta 6) Contrapunctus inversus 12a a 4 7) Contrapunctus inversus 12b a 4 8) Contrapunctus inversus 13a a 3 9) Contrapunctus inversus 13b a 3 10) Canon per augmentationem in contrario motu 11) Fuga a 3 soggetti
4’31 2’56 4’52 3’01 2’05 5’48 5’44 3’38 7’28
6’18 2’33 6’48 6’32 2’19 4’16 4’04 2’16 2’29 10’02 11’33
ÆON · Outhere S.A. · Rue du Chêne 27 · B-1000 Brussels (Belgium) tel. : +32 2 373 82 00 · fax : +32 2 373 82 09 Sales & marketing : dominic@outhere-music.com · communication : julien@outhere-music.com info@outhere-music.com