Bach's final work, The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080, was written in open score, with no indication of the instruments for which it was intended. Although research has shown it was likely meant as a keyboard work of some kind, the situation has invited all kinds of experimentation with the forces deployed. Listeners seeing an accordion mentioned in the membership of the group Les inAttendus ("The UnExpected") may immediately assume that this Harmonia Mundi release is on the outer edges of such experimentation, but really, it's not ...
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Bach's final work, The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080, was written in open score, with no indication of the instruments for which it was intended. Although research has shown it was likely meant as a keyboard work of some kind, the situation has invited all kinds of experimentation with the forces deployed. Listeners seeing an accordion mentioned in the membership of the group Les inAttendus ("The UnExpected") may immediately assume that this Harmonia Mundi release is on the outer edges of such experimentation, but really, it's not so. Once the ear is attuned to what's going on, the performance here disturbs the music less than the various string quartet readings, which necessarily introduce a kind of cognitive dissonance with their suggestions of Classical style. The Art of the Fugue is as far as one can get from Classical style, yet it's the reedy quality of the accordion that makes this work. The ensemble has the flavor of a large organ with varied stops (certainly appropriate to the Art of the Fugue), and...
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