There can hardly be a more lofty, otherworldly musical statement than Bach’s Art of Fugue, where a severely plain “tune” is piled upon itself in 14 fugues of ever-increasing complexity. It’s pure ...

No-one knows quite how the master intended his final studies in counterpoint to be performed, or even on what instrument(s), but in this superlative pianist’s hands the sequence makes total sense – ...

At its most basic level, over the course of an hour and a half, we witnessed the human body treated as if it were an idea in a fugue. We saw it the right way up, flipped upside down, horizontal, ...