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Angela Hewitt - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue (2014) 2CDs

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Angela Hewitt - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue (2014) 2CDs

Angela Hewitt - J.S. Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue) (2014) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 275 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67980 | Time: 01:29:40

Even though Angela Hewitt's repertoire is quite extensive and diverse, encompassing the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and modern eras, her true specialty is the music of J.S. Bach, which she has recorded almost exclusively for Hyperion since the 1980s. With this recording of The Art of Fugue, Hewitt completes her long-running series of piano renditions of the solo keyboard works, and while not everyone is convinced that Bach composed this study of fugal techniques for the keyboard, Hewitt's performance is credible and satisfying. She controls the often unwieldy counterpoint by regarding the lines as if they were vocal parts, and her phrases are shaped by natural breathing points, as well as the different emotional qualities she brings to each fugue and canon. The Art of Fugue can be daunting for both performer and listener because its persistent tonality of D minor and monothematic material can be quite tedious in the wrong hands. Fortunately, Hewitt fights boredom by infusing the music with the full range of expressive and technical possibilities at her disposal, and her full performance has the nuances and variety of her recordings of the Well-Tempered Clavier and the partitas. Just as this masterpiece was the culmination of Bach's thinking on the subject of the fugue, it is a fitting conclusion to Hewitt's worthy service to the composer and a high point in her catalog.

Review by Blair Sanderson, Allmusic.com

Angela Hewitt - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue (2014) 2CDs


In his advertisement for the publication of The Art of Fugue, cited in the booklet notes to this excellent new release, C.P.E. Bach noted that “all of the parts are singable throughout,” an assertion that might startle some who regard the work as the acme of abstract intellectuality in music. But “singability” is perhaps that outstanding quality of Angela Hewitt’s interpretation. On the whole, her tempos tend to be a bit slower than we often hear, certainly from artists such as Charles Rosen, whose Sony recording remains the benchmark, or the more recent Zhu Xiao-Mei (Accentus), but the music never drags.

Compare Hewitt to Rosen, for example, in one of the fugues usually taken swiftly, the double fugue in invertible counterpoint at the twelfth (Contrapunctus IX), and you will hear that although Rosen is quicker and more “instrumental,” Hewitt’s own brand of liveliness has a natural pulse and energy all its own. The music always sings or, in the case of such pieces as the Contrapunctus VI “in the French style,” dances. The fact is that densely contrapuntal music such as this lives or dies on the clarity and balance of its independent lines, and its energy comes from within, as it were, in the way that they jostle against each other. Thus, the slithery chromatic harmonies of Contrapunctus 11 impel the music forward as Hewitt’s smooth articulation and subtle attention to Bach’s voice-leading permit the music to glide along elegantly, like a skater over ice.

Hewitt plays the fugues in numerical order until the two mirror fugues, Nos. XII and XIII. Then come the various canons, and finally the incomplete Contrapunctus XIV followed by the chorale Vor deinen Thron tret ich Hiermit. It’s a pity that Hewitt did not choose one of the completions of this last fugue, Tovey’s especially. A certain mystique hovers over all incomplete works of the great composers, but that fact is that Bach would necessarily have figured out the details of how his various melodies would combine as a prerequisite to beginning work, and the number of ways that could happen is necessarily limited within his aesthetic system. So a stylistically apt conjectural completion such as Tovey’s is in fact quite likely to be close to what Bach might have done, and probably did do, even if we can never be absolutely sure.

This is, in any case, a matter of personal preference and Hewitt is certainly entitled to draw her own conclusions. It only remains to be said that she is gorgeously recorded, and that she provides thoughtful, intelligent, thorough, and very readable notes that provide a good bit of pleasure all by themselves. In a work that offers so much freedom to the performer regarding its realization there can never be a “best” recording, but this must certainly be ranked as one of them on the basis of its distinctive and always supremely musical qualities.

Review by David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com

Angela Hewitt - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue (2014) 2CDs



Angela Hewitt - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue (2014) 2CDs



Tracklist:

CD1:

01. Contrapunctus 1 (03:24)
02. Contrapunctus 2 (02:46)
03. Contrapunctus 3 (03:18)
04. Contrapunctus 4 (04:37)
05. Contrapunctus 5 (03:15)
06. Contrapunctus 6 ‘in stylo Francese’ (05:34)
07. Contrapunctus 7 ‘per augmentationem et diminutionem’ (04:39)
08. Contrapunctus 8 (06:07)
09. Contrapunctus 9 ‘alla duodecima’ (02:48)
10. Contrapunctus 10 ‘alla decima’ (05:37)

CD2:

01. Contrapunctus 11 (07:03)
02. Contrapunctus 12 Rectus (03:14)
03. Contrapunctus 12 Inversus (03:08)
04. Contrapunctus 13 Rectus (02:21)
05. Contrapunctus 13 Inversus (02:23)
06. Canon per augmentationem in contrario motu (04:35)
07. Canon alla ottava (02:20)
08. Canon alla decima in contrapunto alla terza (04:51)
09. Canon alla duodecima in contrapunto alla quinta (02:22)
10. Contrapunctus 14 (Fuga a 3 soggetti) (09:54)
11. Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein (‘Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit’) BWV668a (05:13)


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