The Art of Fugue discography

A list of commercial recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue.

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

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Without recording date - To be inserted in the list

References

• http://www.jsbach.org/1080.html
• http://www.bach-cantatas.com/NVD/BWV1080.htm#Rec