Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Yuji Takahashi

The [Electronic] Art of the Fugue

(Denon/Columbia Music Entertainment, COCQ-84163) (Japan) (CD)


The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080

  1. Contrapunctus I (4:27)
  2. Contrapunctus IV (3:58)
  3. Contrapunctus X (5:59)
  4. Contrapunctus IX (2:54)
  5. Contrapunctus VIII (5:57)
  6. Contrapunctus XI (6:11)
  7. Contrapunctus XV (8:33)

Compositions by J.S. Bach

Yuji Takahashi: synthesizer (Moog-Type 55, EMS-Synthi 2)

Recorded by Masao Hayashi at Shobi Music Academy and Columbia Studio, August-September 1975
Mixed by Yuji Takahashi and Masao Hayashi
Produced by Yoshiharu Kawaguchi
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Yuji Takahashi

Released in June 2006
Originally released in 1975 as an LP on Nippon Columbia