NAGRANIE REFERENCYJNE - 20bit - FIBER OPTIC DISK
A 2001 Juno Award Nominee for Best Classical Album: Large Ensemble or Soloist(s) with Large Ensemble Accompaniment. If you know only three things about the Art of the Fugue, they are probably these: it was the last piece Bach composed; he died before he could complete it; and, he wrote it as a purely theoretical work not intended to be played by any particular instruments. All three are misconceptions, however, born of Romantic and high-modernist clichés about Bach's career and the nature of his music, and propped up by outdated scholarship. But since these misconceptions linger stubbornly to this day, they are still worth refuting . . . continued in the CD booklet - Kevin Bazzana