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18 July — 6 September 2025

Cycle «Change III» 2023 — 2025

Alain Claude Sulzer

Wednesday, 9 August 2023, Gsteig Church

Chamber Music

Wednesday, 9 August 2023
7.30 pm, Gsteig Church

Since Johann Sebastian Bach, the fugue has been one of the most important disciplines in music. Rigid in architecture, it ideally complements the prelude and its greater scope for expressive freedom. How would it sound if a fugue by Schumann or Chopin were to be set against a prelude by Bach? Or if the same Bach were to be set against music by Hummel, Alkan or Arensky? What kind of subtle marriage could the meeting between the master of polyphony and his heirs produce? As a continuation of his solo project “Auf allen Kla4en” (with music by Rossini and Satie), author Alain Claude Sulzer invites pianist Yaara Tal to the stage and offers a literary prelude (in German) to the pieces performed.

Alain Claude Sulzer, Narrator/Author
Yaara Tal, Piano

Music reading – in German

Der preussische Apoll
 
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 
Prelude No. 16 in G Minor, BWV 885 from “The Well-Tempered Clavier”, Book II 
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772-1806) 
Four Voices Fugue in G Minor, Op. 7  
Der missratene Sohn 
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 
Prelude No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 871 from “The Well-Tempered Clavier”, Book II 
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784) 
Fugue in C Minor, F. 32 
Die Vergessenen 
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 
Prelude No. 14 in F-sharp Minor, BWV 883 from “The Well-Tempered Clavier”, Book II 
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) 
Fugue in F-sharp Minor, Op. 7 No. 3 
JEAN LACHT UND WEINT 
Voltaire/dt. Alain Claude Sulzer 
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 
Prelude No. 10 in E Minor, BWV 855 from “The Well-Tempered Clavier”, Book I 
Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888) 
“Jean qui pleure”, Fugue in E Minor 
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 
Prelude No. 10 in E Minor, BWV 855 from “The Well-Tempered Clavier”, Book I 
Klingende Namen 
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 
Prelude No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 875 from “The Well-Tempered Clavier”, Book II 
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) 
Fugue in D Minor, Op. 72 No. 1 
Der heilige Napoleon 
Napoléon Alkan (1826-1906) 
Etude fuguée sur deux motifs du “Prophète” de Meyerbeer (G Minor) 
Flucht und Fügung 
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 
Prelude No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 851 from “The Well-Tempered Clavier”, Book I  
Anton Arensky (1861-1910) 
Fughetta in D Minor 
Der ausschliessliche Künstler 
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 
Prelude No. 8 in E-flat Minor, BWV 853 from “The Well-Tempered Clavier”, Book I 
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) 
Fugue in E-flat Minor 
 75'
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