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This is a list of commercial recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue.
| Artist | Date | Recording | Instrument and remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Buhlig and Wesley Kuhnle | 1934 | piano | |
| Roth Quartet | 1934–1935 | string quartet (includes conjectural end played by Donald Tovey on keyboard) | |
| Gustav Leonhardt | 1953 | harpsichord | |
| Joseph & Grete Dichler | 1954 | 2 pianos | |
| Helmut Walcha | 1956 | organ | |
| Milan Munclinger with Ars Rediviva | 1959 | orchestra | |
| Collegium Aureum | 1962 | chamber ensemble | |
| Glenn Gould | 1962 | piano and organ (incomplete) | |
| Fine Arts String Quartet and New York Woodwind Quintet | 1962 | string quartet and woodwind quintet | |
| Ensemble Wolfgang von Karajan | 1963 | organ (on three chamber organs) | |
| Karl Münchinger and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra | 1965 | orchestra | |
| Karl Ristenpart with Chamber Orchestra of the Saar | 1965 | orchestra (adapted for orchestra by Marcel Bitsch and Claude Pascal[1]) | |
| Hermann Scherchen with Orchestre de la RTSI | 1965 | orchestra | |
| Milan Munclinger with Ars Rediviva | 1966 | orchestra | |
| Charles Rosen | 1967 | piano | |
| Gustav Leonhardt | 1969 | harpsichord | |
| Helmut Walcha | 1970 | organ | |
| Lionel Rogg | 1970 | organ | |
| Neville Marriner with Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | 1974 | orchestra | |
| Yuji Takahashi | 1975 | electronic version (incomplete) | |
| Yuji Takahashi | ? | piano (early version) | |
| Milan Munclinger with Ars Rediviva | 1979 | orchestra | |
| Grigory Sokolov | 1982 | piano | |
| Zoltán Kocsis | 1984 | piano | |
| Musica Antiqua Köln (director Reinhard Goebel) | 1984 | string quartet/harpsichord and various such instrumental combinations | |
| Davitt Moroney | 1985 | harpsichord | |
| Quartetto Italiano | 1985 | string quartet | |
| Jordi Savall with Hesperion XX | 1986 | orchestra | |
| The Canadian Brass | 1987 | brass quintet | |
| Yuji Takahashi | 1988 | piano | |
| Kenneth Gilbert | 1989 | harpsichord (earlier version of the autograph score) | |
| Juilliard String Quartet | 1989 | string quartet[2] | |
| Evgeni Koroliov | 1990 | piano | |
| Berliner Saxophon Quartett | 1990 | saxophone quartet | |
| Erich Bergel with Cluj Philharmonic Orchestra | 1991 | orchestra | |
| Tatiana Nikolayeva | 1992 | piano | |
| Josef Popelka and Zuzana Němečková | 1992 | organ | |
| Wolfgang Rübsam | 1992 | organ | |
| Marie-Claire Alain | 1993 | organ | |
| Louis Thiry | 1993 | organ (Silbermann organ of Saint Thomas Church, Strasbourg) | |
| Ton Koopman and Tini Mathot | 1994 | harpsichords | |
| Andrei Vieru | 1994 | piano | |
| Vladimir Feltsman | 1996 | piano | |
| Keller Quartet | 1997 | string quartet | |
| Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet | 1998 | recorder quartet | |
| Phantasm (director: Laurence Dreyfus) | 1998 | viola da gamba four-part consort | |
| Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano | 1998 | orchestra | |
| André Isoir | 1999 | organ. Some movements performed as a duet with Pierre Farago, on the Grenzing organ of Saint-Cyprien in Périgord, France | |
| Menno Van Delft | 1999 | harpsichord | |
| Hans Fagius | 2000 | organ (on the Carsten Lund organ of the Garnisons Church, Copenhagen, Denmark) | |
| Delmé Quartet | 2000 | string quartet (arranged by composer Robert Simpson, including versions of Contrapuntus XIV unfinished and completed following Tovey's version) | |
| Kevin Bowyer | 2001 | organ (on the Marcussen organ of Saint Hans Church, Odense, Denmark) | |
| Peter Elyakim Taussig | 2001 | piano | |
| József Eötvös | 2002 | two eight-string guitars | |
| Fretwork | 2002 | consort of Viols | |
| Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra | 2002 | orchestra | |
| Emerson Quartet | 2003 | string quartet | |
| Pieter Dirksen | 2003 | harpsichord | |
| Aurelia Saxophone Quartet | 2005 | saxophone quartet | |
| The Version of Jacques Chailley instrumentation of Pascal Vigneron | 2005 | wind quartet, brass quartet and organ | |
| Sébastian Guillot | 2006 | harpsichord | |
| Walter Riemer | 2006 | fortepiano (using a fortepiano of Mozart type)[3] | |
| Bradley Brookshire | 2007 | harpsichord (includes an additional CD-ROM with score to follow along as MP3s play) | |
| Gösta Funck | 2007 | 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 | piano | |
| Sergio Vartolo | 2008 | harpsichord | |
| Gavin Black & George Hazelrigg | 2009 | harpsichords (on two harpsichords with voices shared equally throughout) | |
| Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin | 2011 | orchestra | |
| Angela Hewitt | 2014 | piano | |
| Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque | 2015 | string quartet/harpsichord and various such instrumental combinations | |
| FM_Kantor | 2016 | Die Verkehrung der Fuge | Yamaha DX7, Yamaha TX7 synthesizers[4] |
| Ensemble L'Arte della Fuga | 2016 | violin, viola, cello, bassoon, and contrabass | |
| Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka, including her own completion to the final fugue | 2017 | piano[5] | |
| Wolfgang Rubsam | 2017 | Lautenwerk (lute-harpsichord) | |
| Daniil Trifonov | 2021 | piano | |
| Kenneth Weiss | 2022 | harpsichord |
- Without recording date – to be inserted in the list
- ^ Nonesuch HB-73013
- ^ "J.S.Bach – Juilliard String Quartet – die Kunst der Fuge" (CD). 1992 – via Discogs.
- ^ "J. S. Bach: The Art of the Fugue – Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080". www.niederfellabrunn.at.
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