Mozart: Adagios & Fugues [after JS Bach]: Fugue arrangements for strings

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The Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin are radiant in this recording … this is glorious music beautifully played; a fascinating collection. — Early Music Today, Autumn 2014

Release Date: 7th Apr 2014
Catalogue No: HMC902159
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 51 minutes

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Mozart: Prelude & Fugue in D Minor, K. 405 / 4 (after J.S. Bach, BWV 877: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II)

Work length6:09

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Mozart: Larghetto cantabile in D Major & Fugue, K. 405 / 5 (after J.S. Bach, BWV 874: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II)

Work length4:51

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Mozart: Adagio & Fugue in A Minor (after J.S. Bach, BWV 867: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I)

Work length6:02

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Mozart: Allegro in C Minor, K.Anh.44 & Fuga a due Cembali, K. 426

Work length4:38

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Mozart: Adagio Cantabile & Fugue in E Flat Major (after J.S. Bach, BWV 876: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II)

Work length4:01

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Mozart: Adagio & Fugue in C minor for Strings, K546

Work length6:38

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Mozart: Adagio & Fugue in E Major, K. 405 / 3 (after J.S. Bach, BWV 878: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II)

Work length5:14

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Mozart: Adagio & Fugue in B Minor (after J.S. Bach, BWV 849: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I)

Work length6:13

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Mozart: Adagio & Fugue in D Minor (after J.S. Bach, BWV 849: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I)

Work length7:28

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It has often been overlooked that, between Bach’s death (1750) and the triumphant revival of his 'St Matthew Passion' by Mendelssohn in 1829, other composers had already investigated the oeuvre of this ‘old master’. Mozart was the most fervent among them; thanks to the discoveries of Baron van Swieten, he had the opportunity to explore 'The Well-Tempered Clavier' and make the string arrangements from it featured on this disc.

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin add to their extensive Bach discography with Stephan Mai as konzertmeister. His note on the scoring explains that "In K426, K426a, and K546 we follow Mozart’s own indications as to scoring. The other study works that have come down to us in manuscript scores (for string quartet) offer scope for instrumentation in different textures: string orchestra, string quartet, wind alone, and a combination of strings and wind, as in the last work on the programme, serve the dramaturgical conception of this CD and follow no particular principle apart from that of feasibility.

It goes without saying that the contrapuntal unfolding of the lines in J. S. Bach’s fugues was not to be altered for the sake of the instrumentation, for example by redistributing the voices."

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Early Music Today Autumn 2014

The Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin are radiant in this recording … this is glorious music beautifully played; a fascinating collection.

Mozart: Adagios & Fugues [after JS Bach]

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