Bach: Musical Offering in C minor, BWV 1079 (2000)

From the Old Town Hall, Leipzig during the Bach anniversary year in 2000 Barthold Kuijken - transverse flute Sigiswald Kuijken - violin Wieland Kuijken - viola da gamba Robert Kohnen - harpsichord Johann Sebastian Bach: Musical Offering in C minor, BWV 1079 0:36 Johann Sebastian Bach - Ricercar à 3 6:57 Johann Sebastian Bach - Canon perpetuus super Thema Regium 8:11 Johann Sebastian Bach - Canon diversi super Thema Regium 16:27 Johann Sebastian Bach - Fuga canonica in Epidiapente 19:08 Johann Sebastian Bach - Ricercar à 6 26:24 Johann Sebastian Bach - “Quaerendo invenietis“ Canon á 2 - Canon á 4 Johann Sebastian Bach - Sonata Sopr’Il Soggetto Reale a Traversa, Violino e Continuo 30:09 I. Largo 34:28 II. Allegro 40:40 Andante 46:58 Johann Sebastian Bach - Canon perpetuus Subscribe to EuroArts: Click here to watch other works by J.S. Bach: The Kuijken Ensemble, made up of the three Belgian Kuijken brothers on flute, violin and viola da gamba and the harpsichordist Robert Kohnen count among the most distinguished of all present-day early-music specialists. They have long since branched out into conducting and other far-reaching ways of propagating authentic Baroque style. But they are each masters of a different set of instruments, so their occasional reunions for concerts become genuine occasions. With The Musical Offering, played here in a rigorously reduced scoring, they demonstrate their great flair for style and their long-standing experience and although they don’t look at all alike, their shared musical heritage is audible. Bach’s late masterpiece ‘The Musical Offering’ (1747) is a musical homage written on the occasion of Bach’s visit to King Frederick the Great of Prussia in Potsdam.