• “Musica est exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi."
  [Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.] Gottfried Leibniz, 1712
  

J.S. Bach The Art of the Fugue • Rosalinde Haas

L'enfant terrible de l'orgue plays Bach's Kunst Der Fuge on her harpsichord at home. Each piece is hammered out of months of arguing with Peter Krams, her husband, over the right interpretation of Bach's infrastructure.

The recording is raw, unedited and unpolished.

It captures all the flaws of a live performance, and 70 years worth of craftsmanship.

HEAR Rosalinde Haas play Johann Sebastian Bach Kunst der Fuge:

• 1. Contrapunctus I (BWV 1080,1) 3:33
• 2. Contrapunctus II (BWV 1080,2) 2:55
• 3. Contrapunctus III (BWV 1080,3) 3:30
• 4. Contrapunctus IV (BWV 1080,4) 5:27
• 5. Contrapunctus V (BWV 1080,5) 3:34
• 6. Contrapunctus VI (BWV 1080,6) 4:25
• 7. Contrapunctus VII (BWV 1080,7) 4:40
• 8. Contrapunctus VIII (Bwv 1080,8)7:45
• 9. Contrapunctus IX (BWV 1080, 9) 3:50
• 10. Contrapunctus X (BWV 1080,10) 6:43
• 11. Contrapunctus XI (BWV 1080,11) 11:13

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