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This is a list of commercial recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue .
Artist | Date | Recording | Instrument and remarks |
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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 |
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