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Bach: Goldberg Variations / Klára Würtz
Piano Classics

Bach: Goldberg Variations / Klára Würtz

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$48.99

Details

Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
Artist
Klara Wurtz
Format
Vinyl
Label
Piano Classics
Released
Oct 27, 2023
Catalog #
PCL10283
UPC
5029365102834

About

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.

Tracklist 32 tracks

  1. 1 Aria 04:27
    Track
    1
    Title
    Aria
    Duration
    04:27
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  2. 2 Variatio 1. a 1 Clav. 01:44
    Track
    2
    Title
    Variatio 1. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    01:44
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  3. 3 Variatio 2. a 1 Clav. 01:18
    Track
    3
    Title
    Variatio 2. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    01:18
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  4. 4 Variatio 3. Canone all'Unisuono. a 1 Clav. 01:58
    Track
    4
    Title
    Variatio 3. Canone all'Unisuono. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    01:58
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  5. 5 Variatio 4. a 1 Clav. 01:03
    Track
    5
    Title
    Variatio 4. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    01:03
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  6. 6 Variatio 5. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav. 01:29
    Track
    6
    Title
    Variatio 5. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav.
    Duration
    01:29
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  7. 7 Variatio 6. Canone alla Seconda. a 1 Clav. 01:12
    Track
    7
    Title
    Variatio 6. Canone alla Seconda. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    01:12
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  8. 8 Variatio 7. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav. 01:42
    Track
    8
    Title
    Variatio 7. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav.
    Duration
    01:42
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  9. 9 Variatio 8. a 2 Clav. 01:48
    Track
    9
    Title
    Variatio 8. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    01:48
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  10. 10 Variatio 9. Canone alla Terza. a 1 Clav. 01:31
    Track
    10
    Title
    Variatio 9. Canone alla Terza. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    01:31
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  11. 11 Variatio 10. Fughetta. a 1 Clav. 01:35
    Track
    11
    Title
    Variatio 10. Fughetta. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    01:35
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  12. 12 Variatio 11. a 2 Clav. 02:06
    Track
    12
    Title
    Variatio 11. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    02:06
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  13. 13 Variatio 12. Canone alla Quarta. a 1 Clav. 02:22
    Track
    13
    Title
    Variatio 12. Canone alla Quarta. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  14. 14 Variatio 13. a 2 Clav. 05:18
    Track
    14
    Title
    Variatio 13. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    05:18
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  15. 15 Variatio 14. a 2 Clav. 02:06
    Track
    15
    Title
    Variatio 14. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    02:06
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  16. 16 Variatio 15. Canone alla Quinta. a 1 Clav. 04:08
    Track
    16
    Title
    Variatio 15. Canone alla Quinta. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  17. 17 Variatio 16. Ouverture. a 1 Clav. 02:47
    Track
    17
    Title
    Variatio 16. Ouverture. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    02:47
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  18. 18 Variatio 17. a 2 Clav. 01:59
    Track
    18
    Title
    Variatio 17. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    01:59
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  19. 19 Variatio 18. Canone alla Sexta. a 1 Clav. 01:29
    Track
    19
    Title
    Variatio 18. Canone alla Sexta. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    01:29
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  20. 20 Variatio 19. a 1 Clav. 01:45
    Track
    20
    Title
    Variatio 19. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    01:45
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  21. 21 Variatio 20. a 2 Clav. 01:54
    Track
    21
    Title
    Variatio 20. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    01:54
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  22. 22 Variatio 21. Canone alla Settima. a 1 Clav. 02:42
    Track
    22
    Title
    Variatio 21. Canone alla Settima. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  23. 23 Variatio 22. a 1 Clav. 01:25
    Track
    23
    Title
    Variatio 22. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    01:25
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  24. 24 Variatio 23. a 2 Clav. 02:04
    Track
    24
    Title
    Variatio 23. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    02:04
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  25. 25 Variatio 24. Canone all'Ottava. a 1 Clav. 02:44
    Track
    25
    Title
    Variatio 24. Canone all'Ottava. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  26. 26 Variatio 25. a 2 Clav. 07:58
    Track
    26
    Title
    Variatio 25. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    07:58
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  27. 27 Variatio 26. a 2 Clav. 02:02
    Track
    27
    Title
    Variatio 26. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  28. 28 Variatio 27. Canone alla Nona. a 2 Clav. 01:50
    Track
    28
    Title
    Variatio 27. Canone alla Nona. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    01:50
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  29. 29 Variatio 28. a 2 Clav. 02:18
    Track
    29
    Title
    Variatio 28. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  30. 30 Variatio 29. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav. 02:04
    Track
    30
    Title
    Variatio 29. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav.
    Duration
    02:04
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  31. 31 Variatio 30. Quodlibet. a 1 Clav. 02:02
    Track
    31
    Title
    Variatio 30. Quodlibet. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz
  32. 32 Aria da capo 04:15
    Track
    32
    Title
    Aria da capo
    Duration
    04:15
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Klára Würtz