A compilation of this kind is at its best when it passes three basic tests. It shouldn't scrawl on the Mona Lisa. It should offer skillful, exciting performances, not stuff that tanked when first released. And ideally, it should make musical sense as a whole. The #1 Bach Album easily passes the first two tests, but seems only dimly aware of the ...
Helmut Walcha's 1956 recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue was the first stereo outing for Deutsche Grammophon, rightly regarded as one of the crowning achievements of the blind German organist who memorized Bach's entire catalog of organ works. Walcha performs on the 1725 Franz Casper Schnitger organ at the Laurenskerk in Altmaar, ...
Only someone driven to madness would listen to Bach's The Art of the Fugue all the way through, since any sane person might buckle under the weight of this supreme contrapuntal masterpiece. In the vertiginous breadth of his lines, the awesome scope of his harmonies, and the dizzying depths of the combinations, Bach reveals an eternal and infinite ...
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