Album Review: Bach | Beethoven: Fugue/ Australian Chamber Orchestra/ Tognetti

Album Review: Bach | Beethoven: Fugue/ Australian Chamber Orchestra/ Tognetti

The Australian Chamber Orchestra’s new album release Bach | Beethoven: Fugue on ABC Classics, couples the contrapuntal writing of Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, highlighting their similarities, whilst contrasting the styles in which they were written. Richard Tognetti leads his ensemble of 20 musicians, augmented with players from the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony…

Album Release: Bach | Beethoven: Fugue / Australian Chamber Orchestra / Richard Tognetti

Album Release: Bach | Beethoven: Fugue / Australian Chamber Orchestra / Richard Tognetti

This week, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Richard Tognetti release a new album, Bach | Beethoven: Fugue, that showcases two works of genius by Bach and Beethoven. Recorded live in concert, the album contains selections from The Art of Fugue BWV 1080 by JS Bach and Beethoven’s String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 130 (with Grosse Fuge, Op….