Pianist Yaara Tal is best known as half of a duo with pianist Andreas Groethuysen, but the COVID pandemic temporarily put an end to those activities. Tal, like other players, found solace in playing fugues but felt they lacked coherence as a potential concert program. She hit on the idea of adding preludes from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 to the mix, pairing each prelude with a fugue by a later composer. The latter run chronologically, from one by Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772-1806) to a newly composed ...
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Pianist Yaara Tal is best known as half of a duo with pianist Andreas Groethuysen, but the COVID pandemic temporarily put an end to those activities. Tal, like other players, found solace in playing fugues but felt they lacked coherence as a potential concert program. She hit on the idea of adding preludes from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 to the mix, pairing each prelude with a fugue by a later composer. The latter run chronologically, from one by Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772-1806) to a newly composed fugue by Reinhard Febel, touching along the way on familiar composers like Chopin and Schumann, and on Charles-Valentin Alkan and his much less well-known brother Napoléon Alkan, represented by an intriguing Étude fuguée sur deux motifs du Prophète de Meyerbeer. Chopin's fugue is something of an academic exercise, but most of the pieces are fully fledged in expression. Perhaps the best is the arch-Romantic Fughetta in D minor of Anton Arensky. Tal asserts that there are thematic links...
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