Fugue on the B-A-C-H Motif

Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev - DE PROFUNDIS Compositions for orchestra and choir.

Fugue on the B-A-C-H Motif (2012) is a work that not only is a tribute to a well known tradition, but also a personal interpretation of a symbol. For many famous composers of the past and present, including J.S. Bach himself, the BACH cryptogram has become a universal symbol, and the sense of the infinite contained in these four notes continues to excite modern listeners. Here it is worth recalling the words of Metropolitan Hilarion himself: "In Bach's mysic there is something universal, general, all encompassing. As the poet Joseph Brodsky wrote, 'In all music there is Bach, in all of us there is God.' Bach is a phenomenon in an all Christian scale." The fugue, in the definition of its internal strucutre, presents a monolithic musical formation with an ascending drama it is a sort of "spiritual ladder", an aural movement of woe.
Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, Svetlana Kasyan, Artyom Dervoed, Tatiana Porshneva, Maxim Khokholkov, Sergei Dubov, Alexander Gotgelf, Russian National Orchestra, Moscow Synodal Choir

Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev
Released on 01-04-2015

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