The Art of Fugue discography
# The Art of Fugue discography

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) |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Wolfgang Rubsam | 2017 | | Lautenwerk (lute-harpsichord) |
| Daniil Trifonov | 2021 | | piano |
