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Radio 3,25 Dec 2025,76 mins
Available for 14 days
András Schiff plays Bach's Art of Fugue at the BBC Proms Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall on 23rd August, 2025. Presented by Martin Handley Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue András Schiff (piano) Schaghajegh Nosrati (piano) ‘The greatest work by the greatest composer who ever lived.’ That’s how the celebrated pianist Sir András Schiff has described Bach’s The Art of Fugue. Following acclaimed Proms performances of The Well-Tempered Clavier and the ‘Goldberg’ Variations, Schiff returns to the Proms for a musical high point of his career-long relationship with Bach’s music. Here he squares up to a musical enigma, a cycle left unfinished at the composer’s death that represents the most complex, inventive, intimate and joyful act of creation. He’s joined for one of the work’s fugues by German pianist and long-time collaborator Schaghajegh Nosrati.
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- 1.The Art of FugueThe Art of FugueJohann Sebastian Bach