What Are You Listening To?

[Tiggi]

i-Pod listening in the garden this PM.

Fugues are an exercise in Counterpoint, with the composer in a straight-jacket.

A melodic theme is woven with the same theme running slowly, quickly, backwards, forwards, or inverted, or any combination of these. The difficulty for the composer is to create something which fulfills the task, but is actually of merit. JSB was a master at this.

The result is usually quite stately, although some of the slower pieces are serenely beautiful. Most of these pieces will have been composed for keyboard, and there are solo renditions on Organ, & Harpsichord, mixed with transcriptions for Chamber Orchestra.

A lovely couple of discs...


AllMusic doesn't score Orchestral works.