UNAHQ 2023 album info
UNAHQ 2023 The Touch of Fugue
UNAMAS LABEL 2024
M-01 Toccata-Fugue BWV 565………………9’20”
M-02 Adagio-Fugue K546……………………6’30”
M-03 Strings Quartet No-8 Largo …………4’39”
M-04 Strings Quartet No-8 Allegro molto…2’58”
M-05 Strings Quartet No-8 Allegretto ………4’24”
M-06 Strings Quartet No-8 Largo …………5’32”
M-07 Strings Quartet No-8 Largo …………3’38”
Vn1 Jun Tajiri
Vn2 Shiori Takeda
Va Atsuko Aoki
Vc Mariko Fukuzaki
Cb Ippei Kitamura
Album Concept
For this album, we have chosen the following compositions, which feature three composers and incorporate the Fugue structure in their compositions.
M-01 J.S Bach Toccata-Fugue BWV 565
9’20”
This is an organ piece, but with a score arranged by Jun Tajiri for the UNAMAS Strings Quintet.
The piece opens with a toccata section followed by a fugue that ends in a coda, and is largely typical of the north German organ school of the Baroque era.
audio icon Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, as arranged and performed by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra for the soundtrack of Fantasia.
M-02 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Adagio-Fugue K546
6’30”
is a composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for strings. Mozart entered it into his own work catalogue on 26 June 1788 in Vienna as "A short Adagio for two violins, viola and bass, for a fugue which I wrote some time ago for two Pianos. The work is in two sections:
Adagio
Fuga (Allegro)
In modern times, the work is typically played for string quartet, though, a few recordings can be found using the interpreted orchestral version.
M-03 Dmitri Shostakovich Strings Quartet No-8
The is in five interconnected movements
M-03 MOV-01 Largo 4’39”
M-04 MOV-02 Allegro molto 2’58”
M-05 MOV-03 Allegretto 4’24”
M-06 MOV-04 Largo 5’32”
M-07 MOV-05 Largo 3’38”
The first movement opens with the DSCH motif – Shostakovich's musical signature. The motif is used in every movement of this quartet, and is the basis of the faster theme of the third movement.
