Filippo Gorini - Video

A long-cherished project comes to fruition with the first television broadcast of Filippo Gorini’s The Art of Fugue Explored. Premiering on 21 March on RAI Cultura and running until June, Gorini invites artists and experts in various disciplines to discuss Bach’s final masterpiece. With the likes of German sculptor and painter Alexander Polzin, Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel, American stage director Peter Sellars, Canadian architect Frank Gehry, British cellist Steven Isserlis, Turkish mathematician Betül Tanbay, Russian film director Aleksandr Sokurov, Vancouver Recital Series director Leila Getz, Italian neuro scientist Alice Mado Proverbio, Lebanese writer Dominique Eddé, British mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, German choreographer Sasha Waltz and British composer George Benjamin, Gorini takes a deep dive into Bach’s genius.

The first concert of BBT’s 20th anniversary celebrations at Wigmore Hall in June 2023 ended with this performance of Stravinsky’s Suite from The Soldier’s Tale for violin, clarinet and piano, performed by Alexi Kenney, Mark Simpson and Filippo Gorini, respectively. Join them – and the solider, the devil and the princess – in this masterly performance.

The finale of Bach’s unfinished masterpiece The Art of Fugue, in Filippo Gorini’s new recording for Alpha Classics released on 27 August 2021, is the Fuga a 3 soggetti, breaking off exactly where Bach stopped composing.  Gorini’s new recording marks the start of an ambitious project The Art of Fugue Explored, which will encompass a film and a series of videos of conversations with the likes of Alfred Brendel, Frank Gehry, Alexanders Polzin and Sokurov and Mitsuko Uchida to investigate Bach’s final masterpiece.  This video was released on the day the recording was released.