Konstantin Lifschitz – review

Wigmore Hall, LondonThe Art of Fugue was incomplete when Bach died. A compendium of contrapuntal pieces based on a theme that is regularly turned inside out and upside down over the course of its increasingly complex treatments, it was probably intended as a display of compositional mastery rather than for public performance; in fact, Bach left no indication of what instruments were intended to play it.Though it is occasionally performed by an ensemble, more usually it is a solo keyboard player ...

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