Aapo Hakkinen: J.S. Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge - COMPACT DISCS

Aapo Hakkinen: J.S. Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

J.S. Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge

Artist:

Aapo Hakkinen

Label:

Ondine

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

761195143728

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2024-04-19

Number of Discs:

1

"[Bach] speaks to us in his work in such clear terms that we may quite well call these fugues poems. (...) These have warmth, quiet joy, love. And running through all the poems, dressed in different guises, is the main theme, creating order, binding the work as a whole together: it is a safe bond in all it's diversity. Over all lies the proximity of death." (Enzio Forsblom) In this new recording, Bach's final magnum opus is played by Aapo Häkkinen on a harpsichord built in 1614 by Andreas Ruckers the Elder (1579-?1652) and which belonged to the composer John Blow (1649-1708), organist of Westminster Abbey and former teacher of Henry Purcell. A tradition exists that G.F. Handel had also played this harpsichord.

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