Musical Offering - Bach and Dowland Arseniy Gusev

• Antonello da Caserta (1355 - 1402): Amour m'a le cuer mis en tel martire:
• 1 Caserta: Amour m'a le cuer mis en tel martire 04:46
• John Dowland (1563 - 1626): Forlorn Hope Fancy:
• 2 Dowland: Forlorn Hope Fancy 02:47
• Farewell:
• 3 Dowland: Farewell 03:41
• Fantasia:
• 4 Dowland: Fantasia  04:15
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Musical Offering, BWV 1079:
• 5 Bach: Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Ricercar a 3 05:41
• 6 Bach: Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon perpetuus 01:04
• 7 Bach: Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon a 2, cancrizans 00:24
• 8 Bach: Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon a 2, "Violini in unisono" 00:35
• 9 Bach: Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon a 2, per motum contrarium 00:35
• 10 Bach: Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon a 2, per augmentationem, contrario motu 03:08
• 11 Bach: Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon a 2, per tonos 02:08
• 12 Bach: Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Fuga canonica 01:48
• 13 Bach: Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon a 2 "Quaerendo invenietis" 01:54
• 14 Bach: Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon a 4 "Quaerendo invenietis" 03:50
• 15 Bach: Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon perpetuus, contrario motu 02:03
• 16 Bach: Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Ricercar a 6 07:44
• Alexey Retinsky (b. 1986): ...and the path widened:
• 17 Retinsky: ...and the path widened 17:52
• Total Runtime 01:04:15

Info for Musical Offering - Bach and Dowland

Can music be truly given? It is a shared experience, but people never have less after sharing; in fact, they often have more. When King Friedrich II, according to the famous story, shared his musical theme with Bach, Bach offered him much more in return—a little universe with the King’s theme in the center. The Musical Offering is Bach’s view on how to model an ideal kingdom, a kingdom of sounds. When I was modeling the program for this album, I was thinking about it in a cosmological and partly political fashion as well—by creating an environment where pieces composed centuries apart can co-exist in a harmonious way, representing my values and beliefs to their fullest possible extent. — Arseniy Gusev

Arseniy Gusev, piano

Arseniy Gusev
a young pianist and composer, was born in St. Petersburg in 1998 and has been studying music since the age of five. In 2015, he went to the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. In 2017, he graduated with honors from the Specialized Music School of the St. Petersburg Rimsky- Korsakov State Conservatory and afterward studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory itself. In 2018 he moved to the US. In 2022 Arseniy received his bachelor’s degree (as a pianist and composer) from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and in 2024 he received his master’s degree in composition at Yale University. Currently he is pursuing a master’s degree in piano at the Juilliard School. Among his teachers are Sergei Babayan, Keith Fitch, Chris Theofanidis, and David Lang.

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