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Cedric Pescia

L'art de la fugue

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Harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt said that Bach had written his Art of Fugue for himself, without thinking of performing it on any particular instrument. Faced with a speculative work, each musician will have every opportunity to exercise their freedom by shaping the perfect lines of the polyphony. Right up to the final canon, which never ceases to make us question its incompleteness. It is up to the Franco-Swiss pianist Cédric Pescia, with his sober and subtle playing, to make this sublime score sing. But he will do so on a non-tempered piano, which is no small thing! After a first Cage album on æon whose immense impact is well known, Cédric Pescia brings to Bach an art of nuance, a sense of rhythm combined with an extremely subtle rubato, an inventiveness in phrasing and ornamentation, fluid and incisive at the same time, that has no equivalent in the discography. What relief, what life!

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Product information

  • Album L'art de la fugue
  • Artist Cedric Pescia
  • Release date 2014-01-01
  • Label æon
  • Format CD
  • Country Europe
  • EAN 3760058360330
  • Number of discs 2
  • Number of tracks 20

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Disc 1

  1. Contrapunctus I
    4:31
  2. Contrapunctus II
    2:56
  3. Contrapunctus III
    4:52
  4. Contrapunctus IV
    3:01
  5. Canon Alla Ottava
    2:05
  6. Contrapunctus V
    5:47
  7. Contrapunctus VI, A 4 In Stylo Francese
    5:44
  8. Contrapunctus VII, A 4 Per Augmentationem Et Diminutionem
    3:37
  9. Canon Alla Decima In Contrapunto Alla Terza
    7:28

Disc 2

  1. Contrapunctus VIII A 3
    6:17
  2. Contrapunctus IX, A 4 Alla Duodecima
    2:32
  3. Contrapunctus X, A 4
    6:47
  4. Contrapunctus XI, A 4
    6:32
  5. Canon Alla Duodecima In Contrapunto Alla Quinta
    2:18
  6. Contrapunctus Inversus XIIa, A4
    4:16
  7. Contrapunctus Inversus XIIb, A4
    4:03
  8. Contrapunctus Inversus XIIIa, A 3
    2:15
  9. Contrapunctus INversus XIIIb, A 3
    2:28
  10. Canon Per Augmentationem In Contrario Motu
    10:02
  11. Fuga A 3 Soggetti
    11:32

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