Johann Sebastian Bach plays a key role in her life - she is today one of the most significant interpreters of his music. The remarkable biography of this celebrated pianist gives her a unique position in the world of music. Her life has taken her from the re-education camps of the Chinese Cultural Revolution to Paris, where her international career as a pianist began rather late, but for that all the more successful. In Leipzig, where Bach held his final professional position and where he composed The Art of Fugue, Zhu Xiao-Mei recorded this contrapuntal masterpiece, which is for her "the absolute zenith of polyphonic art." As she says, "The Art of Fugue exercises a total fascination on you. It's like a magnet: you can't detach yourself from it. It is music that opens the gates to an infinite world where time no longer exists; a world where beauty and peace reign supreme, detached from all earthly contingencies."
5 Canon III, Alla Decima in Contrapunto Alla Terza
6 Contrapunctus V
7 Canon in Hypodiapason (Contrapunctus 16)
8 Contrapunctus VI a 4 in Stylo Francese
9 Contrapunctus VII a 4 Per Augmentationem Et Diminutionem
10 Canon Iv, Alla Duodecima in Contrapunto Alla Quinta
11 Contrapunctus VIII a 3
- Disc 2 -
1 Contrapunctus IX a 4 Alla Duodecima
2 Contrapunctus X a 4 Alla Decima
3 Contrapunctus XI a 4
4 Canon I, Per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu
5 Contrapunctus XII a 4, Rectus
6 Contrapunctus XII a 4, Inversus
7 Contrapunctus XIII a 3, Rectus
8 Contrapunctus XIII a 3, Inversus
9 Contrapunctus XIV (Incomplete Version)
Johann Sebastian Bach plays a key role in her life - she is today one of the most significant interpreters of his music. The remarkable biography of this celebrated pianist gives her a unique position in the world of music. Her life has taken her from the re-education camps of the Chinese Cultural Revolution to Paris, where her international career as a pianist began rather late, but for that all the more successful. In Leipzig, where Bach held his final professional position and where he composed The Art of Fugue, Zhu Xiao-Mei recorded this contrapuntal masterpiece, which is for her "the absolute zenith of polyphonic art." As she says, "The Art of Fugue exercises a total fascination on you. It's like a magnet: you can't detach yourself from it. It is music that opens the gates to an infinite world where time no longer exists; a world where beauty and peace reign supreme, detached from all earthly contingencies."
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