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NFM Wroclaw Chamber Orchestra, Ernst Kovacic - The Art of Fugue (2011)

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Date: 18 May 2022 06:52:04
NFM Wroclaw Chamber Orchestra, Ernst Kovacic - The Art of Fugue (2011)

NFM Wroclaw Chamber Orchestra, Ernst Kovacic - The Art of Fugue (2011)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 352 MB | 01:08:19
Genre: Classical | Label: CD Accord

This disc by Polish label CD Accord takes the listener on a non-chronological journey along the highways and byways of fugal history. 'The Art of Fugue' once again proves irresistible as a title, but as a musical form at least the fugue offers plenty of diversity and much scope for a composer's imagination. Many of the items in the programme are, to be sure, movements from larger works or arrangements, but the NFM Wroclaw Chamber Orchestra, a subset of the Witold Lutoslawski Philharmonic, has a dark-roasted expressive sound that brings out both the variety and detail in all these pieces. The ensemble styles itself 'Leopoldinum', after Wroclaw University's Leopoldina Hall, or strictly speaking 'LEOPOLDINUM', with total but unexplained capitalisation. Whatever their name, they give an impressive account of these works, considered and confident, under the guidance of Ernst Kovacic, who has a particular expertise conducting chamber orchestras.

There is no better way to set off on the journey than with Bach's first Contrapunctus, his starting-point for the original and greatest Kunst der Fuge, and an hour later Leopoldinum round off with Moszkowski's own impressive Prelude and Fugue op.85. In between, Bach features directly in three separate works, but his spirit unsurprisingly permeates the programme.

The English-Polish-German notes very helpfully guide the listener through the music twice over, once in a section written by conductor Ernst Kovacic entitled "The Art of Fugue", and then again from a slightly different angle by Polish critic Beata Boleslawska-Lewandowska in "The Fugue through the Ages". In both cases the information is well written and well translated, with no more detail than can be understood by a lay audience.

Highlights of the programme include Purcell's fleeting Fantasia, a fugue in spirit rather than form; Mozart's Adagio and Fugue K.546, the first movement of which gives a glimpse of the darker, Romantic music he would have written had he lived, with the fugue itself an almost Bachian masterpiece; Britten's Prelude and Fugue op.18, a polyphonic tour de force that should be heard much more in the concert hall; and the concluding work by Wroclaw-born Moszkowski, a memorable and stirring fusion of styles.

Sound quality is fairly good, though not entirely lossless. The booklet is clean and tidy and slides neatly between two layers of card in the digipak case with the … unusual … coloured balls of wool design. Flip open the case, by the way, and there is Kovacic juggling nine of them effortlessly.
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Track List:

1. Contrapunctus 1 (arr. for string orchestra) 03:01
2. Adagio 03:02
3. Fugue: Allegro 03:59
4. No. 5. in F major (arr. P. Angerer for string orchestra) 02:19
5. V. Fughetta giojosa 04:22
6. Einleitung und Fugue 03:30
7. Prelude: Grave 03:38
8. Fugue: Allegro energico 06:37
9. Fantasia a 5 in F, Z. 745, "Upon 1 Note" 02:20
10. I. Prelude: Vagaroso e mistico 01:58
11. II. Fugue: Poco apressado 05:42
12. Prelude 01:53
13. Arioso 03:07
14. Fughette 01:38
15. Scherzo in A minor 05:55
16. Fugue in D major 04:29
17. Prelude 04:31
18. Fugue 06:18

Performers:
NFM Wroclaw Chamber Orchestra 'Leopoldinum'
Ernst Kovacic (violin, conductor)

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