LDV200

ANDRÉ ISOIR 33 Over and above that poetical intuition, the Cantor challenged both reason and time on an immense scale, and the organ - here placed at the service of The Art of Fugue - carries that challenge to its absolute limits. For the work as it is, faced with the absence of any specific destination, finds a means of embodying in the organ a sort of obviousness with which nothing is at variance. The appropriateness of the keyboard writing, the additional presence of the pedal, the diversity of the timbre and the permanency of the sound, encourage a veritable representation of the music, presented in such a way as to bring out all its intentions and unravel its great harmonic complexities. Each contrapuntal section has its ‘plot’, in condensed form, in which the subject - standing in all its glory or concealed beneath a mask, identified by its colour, cast into the shadows, then hauled from the depths - multiplies its entries in a setting of mirrors, reflecting its doubles and its opposites.