Bach: Goldberg Variations / Klára Würtz

$36.99
Label
Piano Classics
Release Date
October 27, 2023
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Johann Sebastian Bach
    • PERFORMER
      Klara Wurtz
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 27, 2023
    • UPC
      5029365102834
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PCL10283
    • LABEL
      Piano Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Aria

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    2. Variatio 1. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    3. Variatio 2. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    4. Variatio 3. Canone all'Unisuono. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    5. Variatio 4. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    6. Variatio 5. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    7. Variatio 6. Canone alla Seconda. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    8. Variatio 7. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    9. Variatio 8. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    10. Variatio 9. Canone alla Terza. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    11. Variatio 10. Fughetta. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    12. Variatio 11. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    13. Variatio 12. Canone alla Quarta. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    14. Variatio 13. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    15. Variatio 14. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    16. Variatio 15. Canone alla Quinta. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    17. Variatio 16. Ouverture. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    18. Variatio 17. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    19. Variatio 18. Canone alla Sexta. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    20. Variatio 19. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    21. Variatio 20. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    22. Variatio 21. Canone alla Settima. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    23. Variatio 22. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    24. Variatio 23. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    25. Variatio 24. Canone all'Ottava. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    26. Variatio 25. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    27. Variatio 26. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    28. Variatio 27. Canone alla Nona. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    29. Variatio 28. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    30. Variatio 29. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    31. Variatio 30. Quodlibet. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz

    32. Aria da capo

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Klára Würtz


A superb, collector’s-item vinyl transfer for a recent and widely acclaimed recording of Bach’s nocturnal meditations. When Piano Classics released this recording of the Goldberg Variations on CD in 2022, critics praised its natural phrasing and unobtrusively skilful and sensitive response to the technical demands made by Bach in his most virtuosic piece of keyboard writing.

According to Fanfare magazine, the playing of Klára Würtz ‘has limpid clarity, and rhythmic firmness and exactitude; her articulation is clean and nimble (she has a cleaner trill than Perahia), and her voicing of different lines is splendidly balanced. Her rapid playing is vigorous, her slower playing has calm repose. Her interpretive outlook has spirit and vivacity, but also a total sense of confidence and security, the kind of integrity that needs no ostentatious display to make its mark of absolute rightness... Perahia now has a pianistic rival on my shelf; strongly recommended.’ Reviewers elsewhere were hardly less enthusiastic. ‘Cards on the table, what Würtz’s Goldbergs offer is calm appreciation of the music’s manifold beauties,’ according to Rob Cowan in Gramophone. ‘Her pianism sidesteps overt display or affectedness in favour of purely musical values... This for me is truly great piano playing, a direct route to the soul with no tiresome diversions along the way.’ Vinyl collectors can now enjoy this superb recording in a new transfer made for analogue at the Edel factory in Hamburg, which specialises in collector’s print LP editions such as this one.

The heavy-grade vinyl has exemplary quiet surfaces, and the Dutch church acoustics of the original recording gain a rounded, luminous quality which ideally complements Klára Würtz’s pianism. The set is issued as a 2LP gatefold with booklet notes on the inner sleeve.