Description
J. S. Bach - Musical Offering / Ars Rediviva Ensemble / Supraphon LP
SUA 10072
The Musical Offering (German: Musikalisches Opfer or Das Musikalische Opfer), BWV 1079, is a collection of keyboard canons and fugues and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick the Great (Frederick II of Prussia), to whom they are dedicated. The Ricercar a 6, a six-voice fugue which is regarded as the high point of the entire work, was put forward by the musicologist Charles Rosen as the most significant piano composition in history (partly because it is one of the first). This ricercar is also occasionally called the Prussian Fugue, a name used by Bach himself. The composition is featured in the opening section of Douglas Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979).
Tracklist:
| Musical Offering | |||
| A1 | Ricercar (A 3) | ||
| A2 | Canon Perpetuus Super Thema Regium | ||
| A3 | Canon A 2 Violini In Unisono | ||
| A4 | Canon Per Motum Contrarium | ||
| A5 | Canon Per Augmentationem, Contrario Motu | ||
| A6 | Canon Circularis Per Tonos | ||
| A7 | Fuga Canonica In Epidiapente | ||
| A8 | Canon Perpetuus | ||
| A9 | Canon A 2. Quaerendo Invenietis | ||
| A10 | Canon Cancicans (A 2) | ||
| A11 | Canon (A 4) | ||
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Sonata (A Flauto Traverso, Violino E Basso Continuo) |
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| B1 | Largo | ||
| B2 | Allegro | ||
| B3 | Andante | ||
| B4 | Allegro | ||
| B5 | Ricercar (A 6) |
- Composed By – Johann Sebastian Bach
- Ensemble – Ars Rediviva Ensemble
- Liner Notes, Realization, Musician – Milan Munclinger
- Musician – František Pošta, František Sláma, Jaroslav Motlík, Josef Baxa, Josef Vlach, Karel Bidlo, Stanislav Duchoň, Viktorie Švihlíková, Václav Snítil
