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German-Japanese pianist Kimiko Ishizaka performs J.S. Bach’s The Art of the Fugue. The recital, which features a new composition by the pianist, celebrates Ms. Ishizaka’s latest CD and its release into the public domain. Previous recordings include the Well-Tempered Clavier (2015) and Goldberg Variations (2012).

Johann Sebastian Bachs »Kunst der Fuge« ist sein letztes Meisterwerk und bis heute ein großes musikalisches Rätsel: Der Komponist verstarb über der Vollendung der Werksammlung. Viele Musiker haben seither eigene Interpretationen der unvollendeten Schlussfuge geschrieben und damit versucht, den Zyklus aus 14 Fugen und vier Kanons zu vervollständigen. Unter ihnen ist die Komponistin und Pianistin Kimiko Ishizaka, die sich nun nach zwei anderen großen Bach-Projekten der »Kunst der Fuge« widmet und bei diesem Konzert den gesamten Zyklus samt eigener Ergänzung der Schlussfuge aufführt.

Kimiko will be performing J.S. Bach's "Art of the Fugue".

Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of the Fugue) BWV 1080

The pianist who undertakes performing Bach’s final masterpiece, Art of the Fugue, not only braves one of the most challenging and intense keyboard works of all time, but also confronts the ultimate tragedy of music history; that Bach died before finishing his most ambitious work. For centuries, pianists have pondered what Bach had in mind when he began the final triple fugue based on the musical spelling of his name: B-A-C-H. Pianist Kimiko Ishizaka will present a new interpretation of this work, complete with her own composition of the final triple fugue.

Composer and critic Robert Hugill describes the interpretation as “powerful and strongly vivid ... remarkably engaging, flowing beautifully”

Kimiko Ishizaka’s Art of the Fugue is the third major Bach project that she has undertaken. Previous ventures include her recordings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations (2012), and The Well-Tempered Clavier (2015), which have received overwhelming critical praise from reviewers around the world, including Gramophone Magazine and American Records Journal.

There will be a pre-concert talk with Robert Hugill at 6.30pm.

Kimiko Ishizaka performs for the second time at the Arizona Bach Festival.

Kimiko Ishizaka spielt J.S. Bachs "Kunst der Fuge".

Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080 (komplett)

1. Contrapunctus 1
2. Contrapunctus 2
3. Contrapunctus 3
4. Contrapunctus 4
5. Contrapunctus 5
6. Contrapunctus 6 a 4 in Stylo Francese
7. Contrapunctus 7 a 4 per Augmentationem et Diminutionem
8. Contrapunctus 8 a 3
9. Contrapunctus 9 a 4 alla Duodecima
10. Contrapunctus 10 a 4 alla Decima
11. Contrapunctus 11 a 4
12. Contrapunctus inversus 12 a 4 (Forma inversa)
13. Contrapunctus inversus a 4 (Forma recta)
14. Contrapunctus inversus a 3 (Forma recta)
15. Contrapunctus inversus a 3 (Forma inversa)
16. Canon per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu
17. Canon all Ottava
18. Canon alla Decima in Contrapunto alla Terza
19. Canon alla Duodecima in Contrapunto alla Quinta
20. Fuga a 3 Soggetti

Das Konzert wird ohne Pause gespielt. Dieses Konzert wird als Teil der "Bach in the Subways" Reihe veranstaltet. http://bachinthesubways.org/

ZEIT Samstag, 19. März 2016, von 20:30 Uhr bis 23:15 Uhr (CET)

ORT St. Aposteln - Neumarkt 30 Köln 50677 DE -

Am 8. Mai um 20:00 Uhr gestaltet Kimiko Ishizaka einen Klavierabend mit Werken von Bach, Mozart und Chopin. Gegenwärtig ist die Künstlerin, die 2012/13 mit ihren Einspielungen der Goldberg-Variationen und des Wohltemperierten Klaviers große Aufmerksamkeit erzielt hat, auf Tournee in den USA. Karten gibt es bei Frau Klahold oder ab dem 26. März im Museumsshop. Das Konzert ist dem Andenken des vor einem Jahr verstorbenen Reinhard Krekler gewidmet. Er hat sowohl für Schloss Benrath Großes geleistet als sich auch für junge Künstler engagiert. Dabei hat er früh die herausragende Begabung Kimiko Ishizakas erkannt und ihre Laufbahn gefördert.

Piano Concert: Free the classics

• Presentation by Robert Douglass on the Open Goldberg Variations project and the challenges classical music artists face with the current copyright system
• Concert: Various works by Frédéric Chopin At the piano: Kimiko Ishizaka

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Entrance from the side of Place Luxembourg.

Kimiko Ishizaka to perform a Chopin Recital on the Pleyel piano from the Kenan collection, in the Manifold Studio.

"There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when I feel more need than ever for a Pleyel piano." - F. Chopin

The Pleyel Piano from the Kenan collection of UNC Chapel Hill is a historical treasure, directly linking the North Carolina music scene to the 19th century salons of Paris, France, where the likes of Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin were defining the art of piano playing. This instrument, immaculately refurbished in 2015 to adhere to the strictest historical standards, was played on by no other than Chopin himself.

Kimiko Ishizaka, the pianist behind the Open Goldberg Variations and Open Well-Tempered Clavier, will be touring Europe and North America presenting a recital of Chopin’s music, the highlight of which are the 24 Preludes, Op. 28. Her performance at the Manifold Recording Studio is the final performance on this tour, and it will be recorded in high definition audio and ultra-high definition video in order to create a lasting archive of the special sound of this instrument.

Chopin dedicated the 24 Preludes to Camille Pleyel, piano maker and owner of Salle Pleyel in Paris, at the time Chopin lived there. To play the Chopin Preludes on the Pleyel piano from the Kenan collection is to reach back in time and come as close as possible in this modern age to experiencing Chopin’s music as he himself heard it. In this case, on a piano that Chopin himself played, built by the man to whom these pieces were dedicated.

1. Chopin: 24 Preludes; Nocturnes; Etudes

Kimiko Ishizaka, award-winning German pianist, brings the passionate music of Frédéric Chopin to Jackson, Michigan. You are invited to a solo piano recital dedicated entirely to Chopin’s masterpieces, performed in the recently renovated Recital Hall of the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, in the center of town. After the concert, Kimiko will be selling and signing copies of her newest CD recording, released in March 2015: Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. About Chopin: "Music was his language, the divine tongue through which he expressed a whole realm of sentiments that only the select few can appreciate... The muse of his homeland dictates his songs, and the anguished cries of Poland lend to his art a mysterious, indefinable poetry which, for all those who have truly experienced it, cannot be compared to anything else…” - Franz Liszt Kimiko will perform works from: Chopin: Préludes, Nocturnes, and Études Kimiko’s latest CD recording: J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Available after the concert Kimiko will sign CDs

Kimiko spielt Chopin und berichtet über ihre neue CD: "Das Wohltemperierte Klavier", live bei TonArt.

Kimiko Ishizaka, award-winning German pianist, brings the passionate music of Frédéric Chopin to Jackson, Michigan. You are invited to a solo piano recital dedicated entirely to Chopin’s masterpieces, performed in the recently renovated Recital Hall of the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, in the center of town.

After the concert, Kimiko will be selling and signing copies of her newest CD recording, released in March 2015: Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier.

Private event.

Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, selection from Book 1 Bach: Goldberg Variations

Frédéric Chopin Polonaise-fantaisie in A-flat major, Op. 61

12 Etüden, op. 10

Johann Sebastian Bach Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Band 1, BWV 846-857