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Margaret Phillips
St George’s Hanover Square, London
Organ by Richards, Fowkes and Co. 2012
2 CD set
Description
The final 2-CD volume in Margaret Phillips’s critically-acclaimed 20-CD cycle of recordings of JS Bach’s complete organ works: The Art of Fugue – Bach’s monumental exploration of fugal and canonic techniques.
Track List
CD 1
The Art of Fugue BWV 1080 Contrapuncti nos 1–13
CD2
The Art of Fugue BWV 1080 Canons 1–4
Contrapunctus 14
Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her BWV 769
The Art of Fugue BWV 1080 Contrapunctus 14 (with completion by Kevin Korsyn)
Total playing time:
CD 1 64:53
CD 2 56:10
Production credits
Recorded in St George’s Hanover Square, London on 27– 29th August 2020 by kind permission
Produced and engineered by Gary Cole
Sample audio extracts
Reviews
2022 Critic’s Choice: American Record Guide
‘Phillips never loses sight of the fact that she is playing eloquent music that unfolds in expansive phrases. She constantly demonstrates her mastery of agogic nuance, which I consider the organist’s most valuable resource for the shaping of musical phrases. These are consistently sensitive and eminently musical performances, not musicological exercises… I do not pretend to have heard every organ recording of Art of Fugue, but I have yet to hear one that surpasses this.’ American Record Guide February 2022
‘…nothing could be both more respectful and more uplifting than Margaret Phillips’s playing of some of the most sublime music in existence.’ Organists’ Review February 2022
‘Margaret Phillips’s performance is distinguished by extreme clarity, grace and precision, an intellectual understanding and mastery which are wholly admirable and utterly convincing.’ The Organ February–April 2022
