# The Art of Fugue discography

This is a list of commercial recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue.
| Artist | Date | Recording | Instrument and remarks |
| Roth Quartet | 1934–1935 | Divine Art 136/45 | string quartet (includes conjectural end played by Donald Tovey on keyboard) |
| Richard Buhlig and Wesley Kuhnle | 1934-1938 | Pearl 0150 | piano |
| Collegium Musicum conducted by Hermann Diener | 1935 | Electrola EH 1007-16 | orchestra |
| Edward Power Biggs | 1940 | RCA Victor Red Seal DM 833 | organ |
| Reichs-Bruckner-Orchester (Linz) conducted by Herbert von Karajan | 1944 | MeloClassic MC-5005 | orchestra, abridged version |
| Radio-Orchester Beromünster | 1949 | History 204583-308 | orchestra |
| Fritz Heitmann | 1950 | Telefunken AJ6.41905 | organ |
| Gustav Leonhardt | 1953 | Vanguard Classics OVC 2011/12 | harpsichord |
| Isolde Ahlgrimm | 1953 | Philips A 00242-3 L | harpsichord |
| Joseph & Grete Dichler | 1954 | Westminster XWN 2216 | 2 pianos |
| Pro Arte Kammerorchester München conducted by Kurt Redel | 1955 | Telefunken LT 6535-6 AC | orchestra |
| Helmut Walcha | 1956 | Archiv Produktion 463 712-2 | organ |
| Ars Rediviva conducted by Milan Munclinger | 1959-1966 | Supraphon SV 8368-69 | orchestra |
| Collegium Aureum | 1962 | Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 0287 670047-2 | chamber ensemble |
| Glenn Gould | 1962-1967 | Sony Classical SMK 52 595 | organ (1962 : Contrapunctus 1-9) and piano (1967 : Contrapunctus 1, 2, 4, 9, 11, 13 & 14) |
| Fine Arts String Quartet and New York Woodwind Quintet | 1962 | Saga XID5302/3 | string quartet and woodwind quintet |
| Konrad Philipp Schuba | 1962 | Christophorus SFKLP 78073 | organ |
| Ensemble Wolfgang von Karajan | 1963 | André Charlin AMS 44/45 | organ (on three chamber organs) |
| Kammerorchester des Saarländischen Rundfunks conducted by Karl Ristenpart | 1963 | Erato STU 70188-70189 | orchestra with Huguette Dreyfus, harpsichord |
| Members of Philomusica of London conducted by Ban | 1964 | Decca Eloquence 482 5187 | orchestra |
| Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra conducted by Karl Münchinger | 1965 | Decca 467 267-2 | orchestra |
| Orchestre de la RTSI conducted by Hermann Scherchen | 1965 | Accord 200412 | orchestra with Luciano Sgrizzi, harpsichord |
| Vienna Symphony Orchestra and members of the Vienna Radio Orchestra conducted by Hermann Scherchen | 1965 | MCA Records MCAD2-80352 | orchestra with Herbert Tachezi, harpsichord |
| CBC Toronto Chamber Orchestra conducted by Hermann Scherchen | 1965 | Tahra | orchestra with Kenneth Gilbert, harpsichord |
| Kammerorchester des Saarländischen Rundfunks conducted by Karl Ristenpart | 1966 | Nonesuch HB-73013 | orchestra (adapted for orchestra by Marcel Bitsch and Claude Pascal) |
| Charles Rosen | 1967 | Sony Classical SB2K-62331 | piano |
| Tatiana Nikolayeva | 1967 | Melodiya MELCD-1002006 | piano |
| Isolde Ahlgrimm | 1967 | Tudor 7030 | harpsichord |
| Johannes-Ernst Köhler | 1967 | Berlin Classics 0091762BC or 0149282BC (2008 reedition) | organ |
| Gisbert Schneider | 1967-1968 | Baedeker Record TST 77 946/47 | organ |
| Lionel Rogg | 1969 | EMI His Master's Voice SLS 782 | organ |
| Gustav Leonhardt | 1969 | Deutsche Harmonia Mundi GD77013 | harpsichord |
| Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Marriner | 1974 | | orchestra with Christopher Hogwood, harpsichord |
| Yuji Takahashi | 1975 | Columbia | electronic version (incomplete) |
| Wolfgang Rübsam | 1976 | Philips Classics 438 170-2 | organ |
| Herbert Tachezi | 1977 | TELDEC 243 541-2 | organ |
| Musica Rediviva conducted by Ludovic Bàcs | 1979 | Electrecord STM-ECE 01306/01307 | orchestra |
| Ars Rediviva conducted by Milan Munclinger | 1979 | Supraphon 1411 2971-2 | orchestra |
| Grigory Sokolov | 1982 | Melodiya RCID26063363 | piano |
| Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum conducted by Max Pommer | 1983 | Capriccio 10 026/1-2 | orchestra |
| Zoltán Kocsis | 1984 | Philips Classics 412 729-2 | piano |
| Musica Antiqua Köln (director Reinhard Goebel) | 1984 | Deutsche Grammophon 463027-2 | string quartet/harpsichord and various such instrumental combinations |
| Davitt Moroney | 1985 | Harmonia Mundi HMG50116970 | harpsichord |
| Quartetto Italiano | 1985 | Nuova Era 7342 | string quartet |
| Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra conducted by János Rolla) | 1985 | Hungaroton 12810/11-2 | orchestra with Miklós Spányi, harpsichord |
| Jordi Savall with Hesperion XX | 1986 | Astrée E-2001/E-2002 | orchestra |
| Juilliard String Quartet | 1987 | Sony Classical S2K 45 937 | string quartet |
| The Canadian Brass | 1987 | CBS Masterworks MK 44501 | brass quintet |
| Felix Gottlieb | 1987 | Melodiya 10 10 01645 | harpsichord |
| David Lively | 1988 | BNL Productions 112729 | piano |
| Yuji Takahashi | 1988 | Lontec Music | piano (earlier version of the autograph score) |
| Kenneth Gilbert | 1989 | Archiv Produktion | harpsichord (earlier version of the autograph score) |
| Evgeni Koroliov | 1990 | Tacet 13 | piano |
| Barbara Harbach | 1990 | Gasparo (1990) or MSR Classics MS-1442 (2014 reedition) | organ |
| Berliner Saxophon Quartett | 1990 | CPO 999 058-2 | saxophone quartet |
| Cluj Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Erich Bergel | 1991 | Budapest Music Center 011 | orchestra |
| Tatiana Nikolayeva | 1992 | Hyperion CDA-66631/2 | piano |
| Josef Popelka and Zuzana Němečková | 1992 | Bonton 71 0107-2 | organ |
| Wolfgang Rübsam | 1992 | Naxos 8.550703/04 | organ |
| Marie-Claire Alain | 1993 | Erato 4509-91946-2 | organ |
| Louis Thiry | 1993 | Studio SM 12 22.15 | organ (Silbermann organ of Saint Thomas Church, Strasbourg) |
| Ton Koopman and Tini Mathot | 1994 | Erato 0630-16173-2 | harpsichords |
| Andrei Vieru | 1994 | INA IMV025 | piano |
| Vladimir Feltsman | 1996 | Nimbus NI 2549/50 | piano |
| Keller Quartet | 1997 | ECM 1652 | string quartet |
| Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet | 1998 | Channel Classics CCS12698 | recorder quartet |
| Phantasm (director: Laurence Dreyfus) | 1998 | Simax PSC 1135 | viola da gamba four-part consort. Excerpts : movements 1 to 11 and 19 |
| Robert Hill | 1998 | Hänssler Classic 92.134 | harpsichord |
| Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano | 1998 | Naïve OP30191 | orchestra |
| André Isoir | 1999 | La Dolce Volta LDV200 or LDV515 (reedition) | organ. Some movements performed as a duet with Pierre Farago, on the Grenzing organ of Saint-Cyprien in Périgord, France |
| Menno Van Delft | 1999 | Brilliant Classics 99372-8 | harpsichord |
| Hans Fagius | 2000 | BIS 1034 | organ (on the Carsten Lund organ of the Garnisons Church, Copenhagen, Denmark) |
| Delmé Quartet | 2000 | Hyperion 67138 | string quartet (arranged by composer Robert Simpson, including versions of Contrapuntus XIV unfinished and completed following Tovey's version) |
| Kevin Bowyer | 2001 | Nimbus Records NI 5738/40 | organ (on the Marcussen organ of Saint Hans Church, Odense, Denmark) |
| Peter Elyakim Taussig | 2001 | Pilgrim Records | piano |
| József Eötvös | 2002 | Self-published EJ-06WZ | two eight-string guitars |
| Fretwork | 2002 | Harmonia Mundi HMU907296 | consort of Viols |
| Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra conducted by Karl Münchinger | 2002 | Decca E4672672 | orchestra |
| Emerson Quartet | 2003 | Deutsche Grammophon 4744952 | string quartet |
| Pieter Dirksen | 2003 | Etcetera KTC1348 | harpsichord |
| New Century Saxophone Quartet | 2004 | Channel Classics CCS SA 20204 | saxophone quartet |
| Aurelia Saxophone Quartet | 2005 | Challenge Classics CC72148 | saxophone quartet |
| The Version of Jacques Chailley instrumentation of Pascal Vigneron | 2005 | | wind quartet, brass quartet and organ |
| Sébastian Guillot | 2006 | Naxos 8.557796 | harpsichord |
| Walter Riemer | 2006 | ORF | fortepiano (using a fortepiano of Mozart type) |
| Bradley Brookshire | 2007 | Bach Harpsichord BHI1080 | harpsichord (includes an additional CD-ROM with score to follow along as MP3s play) |
| Gösta Funck | 2007 | Classic Concert Record CCR-42408 | harpsichord (Christian Zell, 1728) |
| Laibachkunstderfuge, by Neue Slowenische Kunst industrial band Laibach | 2008 | | electronic version |
| An electronic version by Jeffrey C Hall | 2007? | | |
| Pierre-Laurent Aimard | 2008 | Deutsche Grammophon 4794381 | piano |
| Sergio Vartolo | 2008 | Naxos 8.570577-78 | harpsichord |
| Gavin Black & George Hazelrigg | 2009 | Outer Marker Records OM07100H | harpsichords (on two harpsichords with voices shared equally throughout) |
| Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin | 2011 | Harmonia Mundi HMC902064 | orchestra |
| Angela Hewitt | 2014 | Hyperion CDA67980 | piano |
| Martha Cook | 2015 | Passacaille PAS1014 | harpsichord |
| Schaghajegh Nosrati | 2015 | Genuin GEN15374 | piano |
| Marco Angius with Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto | 2015 | Stradivarius STR37008 | orchestra (adapted for orchestra by Hermann Scherchen) |
| Roberto Giordano | 2015 | La Bottega Discantica BDI287 | piano |
| Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque | 2015 | Channel CCSSA38316 | string quartet/harpsichord and various such instrumental combinations |
| Jörg Abbing | 2016 | IFO ORG7260 | organ |
| Stephanie Ho and Saar Ahuvia | 2016 | New Focus FCR181 | piano duo |
| FM_Kantor | 2016 | Die Verkehrung der Fuge | Yamaha DX7, Yamaha TX7 synthesizers |
| L'Arte della Fuga | 2016 | Oehms OC1854 | violin, viola, cello, bassoon, and contrabass |
| Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka, including her own completion to the final fugue | 2017 | | piano |
| Accademia Bizantina (director Ottavio Dantone) | 2017 | Decca 4832329 | string quartet/harpsichord and various such instrumental combinations |
| Quintaessentia | 2017 | ARS Produktion ARS38230 | recorder quartet |
| Wolfgang Rubsam | 2017 | Counterpoint Records CR23351/52 | Lautenwerk (lute-harpsichord) |
| Bálint Karosi | 2017 | Hungaroton HCD32784-85 | organ, harpsichord and clavichord |
| Bob van Asperen | 2018 | Aeolus AE10154 | harpsichord |
| Vincent Grappy | 2018 | Hortus 246748 | organ |
| Berlin Saxophone Quartet | 2018 | CPO 555162-1 | saxophone quartet |
| Matthias Maierhofer | 2019 | Ambiente 2037 | organ |
| Pieter-Jan Belder | 2019 | Brilliant Classics 96035 | harpsichord/clavichord |
| Samuel Kummer | 2020 | Aeolus AE11291 | organ |
| Les inAttendus | 2021 | Harmonia Mundi HMM905313 | chamber ensemble |
| Margaret Phillips (musician) | 2021 | Regent REGCD558 | organ |
| Salzburg Chamber Soloists | 2021 | Gramola 98009 | string orchestra |
| Aston Magna (ensemble) | 2021 | Centaur CRC3851 | chamber ensemble |
| Geoffrey Douglas Madge | 2021 | Zefir ZEF9683 | piano |
| Eloise Bella Kohn | 2021 | Hänssler HC21049 | piano |
| Filippo Gorini | 2021 | Alpha 755 | piano |
| Kenneth Weiss | 2022 | Paraty PTY12211115 | harpsichord |
| Maurizio Ricci | 2023 | Casa Musicale Eco 860272 | organ |
| New Collegium | 2023 | Ramée RAM2208 | chamber ensemble |
| Noël Akchoté | 2023 | NoA OWSG-000 | guitar |
| Cuarteto Casals | 2023 | Harmonia Mundi HMM902717 | string quartet |
| Les Récréations | 2023 | Ricercar RIC453 | chamber ensemble |
| Christophe Rousset | 2023 | Aparté AP313 | harpsichord |
| Andrzej Ślązak | 2023 | DUX 2053-54 | piano |
| Aapo Häkkinen | 2024 | Ondine ODE1437-2 | harpsichord |
| Masaaki Suzuki | 2024 | BIS 2531 | harpsichord |
| Quartetto di Cremona | 2024 | Orchid Classics ORC100342 | string quartet |
| Paul Suits; completion of Contrapunctus XIX by Nikolaus Matthes | 2024 | resonando rn-10020 | piano |