Release Date: 28 February 2020
Label: First Hand Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060216343495
Description
The greatest Bach player of her generation, Russian pianist Tatyana Nikolayeva delivered this incredible live performance just a few months before her death. This recording is published for the first time on FHR, with the kind permission of the Tatyana Nikolayeva estate. This is one of the last recordings of Nikolayeva.
Although The Art of Fugue work was long thought to have been written on Bach's deathbed, recent research has shown that he was working on it during the early 1740s. The autograph from this time comprises fourteen movements (twelve fugues and two canons), but at the end of his life Bach revised the unpublished work adding two fugues and two canons. Engraving of the plates for publication began during the last months of Bach's life and he was able to proof read some of them albeit with failing eyesight. However, when the work was published at the end of 1751 Bach was already dead and the last fugue left incomplete.
In creating his The Art of Fugue Bach proved that he was master of the form but in the hands of a musically intuitive interpreter such as Tatyana Nikolayeva it becomes one of the masterpieces of a world genius.
'Under the fingers of Tatiana Nikolaeva, L' Art de la fugue de Bach becomes a three-dimensional work: horizontal (the magnitude of speech), vertical (the highlight of consonances) and temporal (the narrative depth). It's a whole musical cosmos, an intimate and meditative reading.... This unprecedented interpretation of The Art of Fugue de Bach is a new reference among the readings given to the piano.'
Tracklisting
Tatyana Nikolayeva
Noxwode, Conor Gricmanis
Tessa Lark, Jon Batiste, Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Edgar Meyer
Alexander Baillie & Nigel Yandell
Orquestra Sinfonica Portuguesa; Alvaro Cassuto
The Flautadors Recorder Quartet
The Telling
Sarah Cahill
Breanndan Begley, Mick O'Brien, ConTempo Quartet & IMO Quartet
