Sunday morning concert Cuarteto Casals

Just as for Maurits Cornelis Escher, formal requirements challenged Bach to create pure beauty. Just as the graphic artist effortlessly transformed birds into fish and etched endless waterfalls, Bach performed miracles within the most difficult musical genre, the fugue. The Art of the Fugue became one of Bach's unique high points, and his swan song: he died while writing the final fugue.

Sunday morning concert Cuarteto Casals

Dates

Sun 25 Jan11:00 - 12:30

Location

Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Piet Heinkade 1, 1019 BR Amsterdam

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The Art of the Fugue: highlight and swan song

Bach wrote his magnum opus on the fugue as an abstract work: "The Art of Fugue" has no instrumentation markings. Cuarteto Casals took up the challenge, performed the work numerous times, and recorded the complete series of canons, single, double, triple, counter, and mirror fugues. The members found their inspiration in their quartet's namesake, Pablo Casals, who was the first cellist to show the world the beauty of Bach's Suites for solo cello.