The Art of Fugue discography

Last updated March 09, 2024

This is a list of commercial recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue .

Artist	Date	Recording	Instrument and remarks
Richard Buhlig and Wesley Kuhnle	1934		piano
Roth Quartet	1934–1935		string quartet (includes conjectural end played by Donald Tovey on keyboard)
Gustav Leonhardt	1953		harpsichord
Joseph & Grete Dichler	1954		2 pianos
Helmut Walcha	1956		organ
Milan Munclinger with Ars Rediviva	1959		orchestra
Collegium Aureum	1962		chamber ensemble
Glenn Gould	1962		piano and organ (incomplete)
Fine Arts String Quartet and New York Woodwind Quintet	1962		string quartet and woodwind quintet
Ensemble Wolfgang von Karajan	1963		organ (on three chamber organs)
Karl Münchinger and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra	1965		orchestra
Karl Ristenpart with Chamber Orchestra of the Saar	1965		orchestra (adapted for orchestra by Marcel Bitsch and Claude Pascal ^[1])
Hermann Scherchen with Orchestre de la RTSI	1965		orchestra
Milan Munclinger with Ars Rediviva	1966		orchestra
Charles Rosen	1967		piano
Gustav Leonhardt	1969		harpsichord
Helmut Walcha	1970		organ
Lionel Rogg	1970		organ
Neville Marriner with Academy of St. Martin in the Fields	1974		orchestra
Yuji Takahashi	1975		electronic version (incomplete)
Yuji Takahashi	?		piano (early version)
Milan Munclinger with Ars Rediviva	1979		orchestra
Grigory Sokolov	1982		piano
Zoltán Kocsis	1984		piano
Musica Antiqua Köln (director Reinhard Goebel)	1984		string quartet/harpsichord and various such instrumental combinations
Davitt Moroney	1985		harpsichord
Quartetto Italiano	1985		string quartet
Jordi Savall with Hesperion XX	1986		orchestra
The Canadian Brass	1987		brass quintet
Yuji Takahashi	1988		piano
Kenneth Gilbert	1989		harpsichord (earlier version of the autograph score)
Juilliard String Quartet	1989		string quartet^[2]
Evgeni Koroliov	1990		piano
Berliner Saxophon Quartett	1990		saxophone quartet
Erich Bergel with Cluj Philharmonic Orchestra	1991		orchestra
Tatiana Nikolayeva	1992		piano
Josef Popelka and Zuzana Němečková	1992		organ
Wolfgang Rübsam	1992		organ
Marie-Claire Alain	1993		organ
Louis Thiry	1993		organ (Silbermann organ of Saint Thomas Church, Strasbourg)
Ton Koopman and Tini Mathot	1994		harpsichords
Andrei Vieru	1994		piano
Vladimir Feltsman	1996		piano
Keller Quartet	1997		string quartet
Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet	1998		recorder quartet
Phantasm (director: Laurence Dreyfus)	1998		viola da gamba four-part consort
Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano	1998		orchestra
André Isoir	1999		organ. Some movements performed as a duet with Pierre Farago, on the Grenzing organ of Saint-Cyprien in Périgord, France
Menno Van Delft	1999		harpsichord
Hans Fagius	2000		organ (on the Carsten Lund organ of the Garnisons Church, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Delmé Quartet	2000		string quartet (arranged by composer Robert Simpson, including versions of Contrapuntus XIV unfinished and completed following Tovey's version)
Kevin Bowyer	2001		organ (on the Marcussen organ of Saint Hans Church, Odense, Denmark)
Peter Elyakim Taussig	2001		piano
József Eötvös	2002		two eight-string guitars
Fretwork	2002		consort of Viols
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra	2002		orchestra
Emerson Quartet	2003		string quartet
Pieter Dirksen	2003		harpsichord
Aurelia Saxophone Quartet	2005		saxophone quartet
The Version of Jacques Chailley instrumentation of Pascal Vigneron	2005		wind quartet, brass quartet and organ
Sébastian Guillot	2006		harpsichord
Walter Riemer	2006		fortepiano (using a fortepiano of Mozart type)^[3]
Bradley Brookshire	2007		harpsichord (includes an additional CD-ROM with score to follow along as MP3s play)
Gösta Funck	2007		harpsichord (Christian Zell, 1728)
Laibachkunstderfuge, by Neue Slowenische Kunst industrial band Laibach	2008		electronic version
An electronic version by Jeffrey C Hall	2007?
Pierre-Laurent Aimard	2008		piano
Sergio Vartolo	2008		harpsichord
Gavin Black & George Hazelrigg	2009		harpsichords (on two harpsichords with voices shared equally throughout)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin	2011		orchestra
Angela Hewitt	2014		piano
Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque	2015		string quartet/harpsichord and various such instrumental combinations
FM_Kantor	2016	Die Verkehrung der Fuge	Yamaha DX7, Yamaha TX7 synthesizers^[4]
Ensemble L'Arte della Fuga	2016		violin, viola, cello, bassoon, and contrabass
Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka, including her own completion to the final fugue	2017		piano^[5]
Wolfgang Rubsam	2017		Lautenwerk (lute-harpsichord)
Daniil Trifonov	2021		piano
Kenneth Weiss	2022		harpsichord

Without recording date – to be inserted in the list

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References

↑ Nonesuch HB-73013
↑ "J.S.Bach – Juilliard String Quartet – die Kunst der Fuge" (CD). 1992 – via Discogs.
↑ "J. S. Bach: The Art of the Fugue – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080". www.niederfellabrunn.at.
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[1] Nonesuch HB-73013

[2] "J.S.Bach – Juilliard String Quartet – die Kunst der Fuge" (CD). 1992 – via Discogs.

[3] "J. S. Bach: The Art of the Fugue – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080". www.niederfellabrunn.at.

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v t e Chamber music and orchestral works by, and transcriptions after, Johann Sebastian Bach
Solo	Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001–1006 Partita No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 Cello Suites, BWV 1007–1012 Partita for Solo Flute, BWV 1013
Ensemble	Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1014–1019 Sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord, BWV 1027–1029 Flute Sonatas in B minor, BWV 1030 in E♭ major, BWV 1031 (doubtful) in A major, BWV 1032 in C major, BWV 1033 (doubtful) in E minor, BWV 1034 in E major, BWV 1035 Trio Sonatas Sonata for two flutes and continuo, BWV 1039 Canonic Sonata for oboe, violin and continuo, BWV 1040
Concertos	Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042 Concerto for Two Violins, BWV 1043 Triple Concerto, BWV 1044 Sinfonia for violin and orchestra, BWV 1045 Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051 No. 5 Keyboard concertos, BWV 1052–1065 No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052 No. 2 in E major, BWV 1053 No. 4 in A major, BWV 1055 For two harpsichords in C minor, BWV 1060
Suites	Orchestral Suites, BWV 1066–1069 Orchestral Suite in G minor, BWV 1070 (doubtful)
Fugal	The Musical Offering, BWV 1079 The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 discography
Adaptations	"Air on the G String" "Alphabet" "Ave Maria" Bach-Busoni Editions "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" "Feel My Rhythm" "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" "Joy" "Lady Lynda" "Sheep may safely graze" "They" Trio Sonata, BWV 525a "A Whiter Shade of Pale"
Albums	Bach's Greatest Hits Back to Bach Jazz Sebastian Bach Switched-On Bach Switched-On Bach II
List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach