This presentation by Michael Parloff titled “the art of late Bach” goes much deeper into the master’s Art of Fugue than most of us have time to explore. But since spending two hours in the company of Bach’s mature musical mind may interest some, links to both parts of the lecture are below…

For the others, below are the 10 minutes that would constitute solid “notes” before UP CLOSE AND CLASSICAL upcoming concerts.

The first video below is “Part 2”, and the segment starting at 8:25 describes the theme used in the “Art of Fugue” and how Bach used it in the different contrapuncti (how he named the movements).

From 14:04 to 18:50, Michael Parloff takes apart the Contrapuncti #1 and #2 that our quartet will play on the June 29th and 30th concerts.

The link to the first part of this 2-hour lecture is below: