- Audio CD (Sep 4 2001)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- ASIN: B00005KC70
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Track Listings
| 1. Contrapunctus 1 |
| 2. Contrapunctus 2 |
| 3. Contrapunctus 3 |
| 4. Contrapunctus 4 |
| 5. Contrapunctus 5 |
| 6. Contrapunctus 6 |
| 7. Contrapunctus 7 |
| 8. Contrapunctus 8 |
| 9. Contrapunctus 9 |
| 10. Contrapunctus 10 |
| 11. Contrapunctus 11 |
| 12. Contrapunctus 12 (Canon) |
| 13. Contrapunctus 13 (Canon) |
| 14. Contrapunctus 14 (Canon) |
| 15. Contrapunctus 15 (Canon) |
| 16. Contrapunctus 16 (double fugue) |
| 17. Contrapunctus 17 (dbl.Fugue, two-pianos) |
| 18. Contrapunctus 18 (dbl.Fugue, two-pianos) |
| 19. Contrapunctus 19 (unfinished) |
Product Description
From the Artist
After twenty years of concerts and recordings I was diagnosed with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and arthritis in my right hand. With the help of the Yamaha Corporation, I developed a recording technique which replaces my fingers with a computer mouse and allows me to record with my left hand alone on an acoustic concert grand piano. The technique, called "Musical Sculpting", has the extra benefit for the listener of creating unparalleled clarity and the ability to hear complex music in a completely fresh way. The Art of the Fugue consists of 22 fugues (Contrapucti) built on a single theme. A fugue is a musical form in which several voices move independently of each other while maintaining a harmonious co-existence.
About the Artist
Peter Elyakim Taussig recorded over 200 broadcasts for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation spanning the complete chamber music of Beethoven, Schubert, Mendellsohn, Schumann, and Brahms. On the concert stage he collaborated with such musicians as John Eliot Gardner, Sir Andrew Davis, The Cleveland Quartet, Erich Kunzel, Elly Ameling, and Arthur Fiedler. Taussig has taught music at the University of Western Ontario and electronic media at the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. He was music director of the Stratford Summer Music Festival and created the music technology curriculum for the Royal Conservatory of Music.
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3.5 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
In memoriam Glenn Gould, April 18 2004
By marschallin73 - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Art of the Fugue (Audio CD)
Taussig's endeavor is certainly commendable, his skill unquestionable: or, from a slightly different perspective, one is tempted to suggest that Bach's stunningly beautiful Art of Fugue exhibits the uncanny tendency to automatically redress interpretive weaknesses.And just a couple of minor weaknesses I have found. First: how the playing can be muddled, rushed and (clumsily) uneven in places (I am thinking of Contrapunctus 1, which never really seems to get off the ground) represents for me an intellectual challenge: doesn't this revolutionary recording technique enable the separate treatment of each voice?
Second: as one reviewer notices, the rendition is a little on the romantic side, although not consistently so.
But these are indeed trifles. Overall, this cd is a remarkable achievement. Yet, it is enough to listen to Gould's late (piano) recording of Contrapunctus 1 vis a vis Taussig's to grasp the difference between the superhuman and the merely human. The comparison stirs up old, still anxious questions: why is it so arduous to even come close to Glenn Gould's sound? What was his secret? Why did he die without recording the entire Art of Fugue on his piano? Why did he die at all?
These are devastating questions, which can only be reiterated. Questions that Taussig, through his frank, even passionate Art of Fugue, seems to be rephrasing in dignified, wistful ways.
Recommended.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
I want the whole series! Extraordinary!, Oct 28 2003
By Pierre R. Schwob - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Art of the Fugue (Audio CD)
I clicked on the 1-Click Purchase after listening only to the Contrapuctus No.9. Extraordinary! And the rest of that CD is likewise outstanding for its bold musicianship and crackling intelligence. I can't wait for the rest of this series of 18 CDs. Tauber's recording technique, while unorthodox, produces a wonderful interpretation of Bach's genius - of which Gould (a friend of Tauber who also dabbled in electronic instruments during their seminal days) would have approved - minus the humming... These recordings prove once more that the instrument matters much less than the control of the instrument. Bravo!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Gould? Where?, Nov 1 2003
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Art of the Fugue (Audio CD)
I must admit I dislike calling this work a real performance since it is not more than a series of MIDI sequences (there are many other sequences - and better - in the world!).Interpretation of the great "Art of the Fugue" here is sometimes poetic; the sound is nice, not excellent, and often the Author falls into something ridicolous, such as too much staccato at the end of Contrapuncto I after a lot of well balanced phrasings; or when he marks each theme with a lot of flourishes which have no sense in piano music, above all in the Disklavier music, etc.
But the biggest mistake is to compare these "performances" with the Glenn Gould ones (see from the web). Also these are too metrical, too sequenced, too false. Sorry; and Gould was not a machine as the Author thinks.
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