Composer of the Week - Johann Sebastian Bach - The Last Decade: Bach in the 1740s

Donald Macleod concludes his survey of Bach's music with excerpts from three of what are considered to be the musical masterpieces of the composer's final decade. Sonata for flute, violin and continuo (The Musical Offering, BWV 1079) Barthold Kuijken (transverse flute) Sigiswald Kuijken (violin) Wieland Kuijken (viola da gamba) Robert Kohnen (harpsichord) Fugue subject (Contrapunctus I - The Art of Fugue) Davitt Moroney (harpsichord) The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 (excerpts) Charles Rosen (piano) Credo (Mass in B minor, BWV 232) (excerpts) Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe, BWV 34 Lisa Larsson (soprano) Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto) Christoph Genz (tenor) Panajotis Iconomou (bass-baritone) Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).