L'art de la fugue

 

Hermann Scherchen  conducting the BWV 1080 from Jean Sébastien Bach' s "Art de le fugue ".
 

A brilliant lesson of what would be the fugue.

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This extract is included in the DVD box "Les grandes répétitions", a serie of rehearsals filmed by Gérard Patris and produced in the 60s by "Le service de la recherche" of the french national radio, founded by Pierre Schaeffer.
These 5 remarkable movies are focused on Cecil Taylor, Edgar Varèse, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Olivier Messiaen and Hermann Scherchen. 

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