KLAVIER & CO: Die Kunst der Fuge 2025

In its new programme, the Belli-Fischer-Rimmer trio dedicates itself to the great master and his last work: The Art of Fugue. An evening-long listening adventure between epic sound architecture, improvisation, counterpoint and pulsating vitality! The Art of Fugue is performed in all kinds of sonic guises, on piano and organ, with string or saxophone quartet and even a large symphony orchestra. The greatness of this last score by Johann Sebastian Bach lies particularly in the impressive abstraction of the form and the material, which is brought to the point here and yet in no way simply appears hermetically as a list of contrapuntal techniques, but rather touches us as pure music, as an immediate sound form of spiritual power. The trio approaches it in its own very personal way: inspiring interactions arise between today's perspective and its origins, historical performance practice and contemporary playing culture, and they allow the approximately 270-year-old work to appear like an archaeological find in a new, contemporary light. For this evening, Bach's music will be juxtaposed with the sound world of the Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas.