Fuge

At the further end two women were seated close together in conversation, and I distinctly heard the name 'Fuge'.

The Grim Smile of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899

"World's End" ranks as one of my very favorite episodes in the "Fuge" run.

Home Theater Forum 2009

Warren Oates makes a return "Fuge" appearance here (he also had a terrific part in the Season-One episode

Home Theater Forum 2009

The first half had been taken up witha single work, too: the first of the Razumovskys, Op 59 No 1, which in its own way – 20 years before Grosse Fuge – had broken the conventional bounds of quartet form just as decisively.

Takács Quartet 2010

In their very firstrecital in the series, the Takács had played the B flat quartet Op 130, with the second, less weighty last movement that Beethoven composed for it; here, they played the same work as originally conceived, with the Grosse Fuge asfinale.

Takács Quartet 2010

Beethoven, possessor of the most famous late style in Western musical history, refused to play by the future's rules: those last string quartets, right up to the disorienting finale of the "Grosse Fuge," didn't sum up his legacy in a tidy way, but instead left his aesthetic estate in contentious probate for generations.

Archive 2008-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

The Takács's titanic performance of the Grosse Fuge – whichstill found moments of heart-stopping mystery and quiet playing among the ferocious technical challenges – inevitably became the work's centre of gravity, taking over from the preceding Cavatina, which functions as the emotional core when the lesser finale is played.

Takács Quartet 2010

Beethoven, possessor of the most famous late style in Western musical history, refused to play by the future's rules: those last string quartets, right up to the disorienting finale of the "Grosse Fuge," didn't sum up his legacy in a tidy way, but instead left his aesthetic estate in contentious probate for generations.

Think of all you'll derive just by being alive Matthew Guerrieri 2008

Pierre-Laurent Aimard's Deutsche Grammophon début was Bach's Kunst der Fuge - not exactly light after-dinner fare.

What is it these days? Patrick J. Smith 2008

I am fairly familiar with Pierre-Laurent Aimard's work through his performances of György Ligeti and Pierre Boulez, so I - like many reviewers - approached his recording of Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge with some trepidation.

Archive 2008-05-01 Patrick J. Smith 2008