Bach: Chromatic Fantasy; Italian Concerto; Goldberg Variations (Aria) [Import] [Original recording remastered]

Track Listings

1. Goldberg Variations, Bwv 988 (Aria)

2. 2-4 Italian Concerto In F Major, Bwv 971

3. 5-6 Chromatic Fantasy And Fugue In D Minor, Bwv 903a

4. Cappricio In B-Flat Major Bwv 992

5. 8-10 Brandenburg Concerto No.5 In D Major, Bwv 1050

Editorial Reviews
Album Details
First Time on CD. Digitally Remastered.

Tracks:

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria - Andante espressivo
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 1 - Allegro moderato
Goldberg Variations: Variation 2 - Allegretto
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 3 - Canone all'unisono (Pocco andante, ma con moto)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 4 - L'istesso movimento
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 5 - Allegro vivace
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 6 - Canone alla seconda (Allegretto)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 7 - Un pocco vivace
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 8 - Allegro
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 9 - Canone alla terza (Moderato)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 10 - Fughetta (Un pocco animato)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 11 - Allegro e leggiero
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 12 - Canone alla quarta In moto contrario (Allegretto moderato)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 13 - Andantino
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 14 - Allegro moderato
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 15 - Canone alla quinta In moto contrairo (Andante)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 16 - Ouverture (Maestoso - Allegretto)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 17 - Allegro
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 18 - Canone alla sesta (Con moto)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 19 - Allegro vivace
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 20 - Allegro
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 21 - Canone alla settima (Andante con moto)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 22 - Alla breve
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 23 - Allegro moderato
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 24 - Canone all'ottava (Allegretto con moto)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 25 - Andante espressivo
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 26 - Allegro
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 27 - Canone alla nona (Un poco vivace)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 28 - Allegro
Goldbert Variations, BWV 988: Variation 29 - Brillante
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 30 - Quodlibet (Moderato)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Arai de capo - Andante espressivo
Italian Concerto In F, BWV 971: I: (Allegro giusto)
Italian Concerto In F, BWV 971: II. Andante
Italian Concerto In F, BWV 971: III. Presto
CHROMATIC FANTASIA AND FUGUE IN D MINOR, BWV 903: Fantasia
CHROMATIC FANTASIA AND FUGUE IN D MINOR, BWV 903: Fugue

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Wanda Landowska made this first recorded version of Bach's Goldberg Variations in 1933. While she preferred her 1945 remake for RCA, this first attempt is tighter and less italicized in expression. The colorful registral shifts on her custom-made Pleyel harpsichord might have little to do with modern-day Baroque scholarship; but who cares? What rhythm this woman had--to say nothing of her remarkably independent fingers and ability to spin out long lines as if they were being sung, instead of plucked. Landowska takes some, but not all, repeats, and reiterates the first eight bars of Nos. 5, 7, and 18. The Italian Concerto's outer movements might sound a tad upholstered via Landowska's gilded instrument, but the eloquent, slow movement takes your breath away. Few have touched Landowska's proudly rhetorical traversal of the Chromatic Fantasy, with each whirlwind run and heart-stopping pause emerging as if it were being improvised on the spot. Compared to their previous transfer, EMI's newest remasterings beef up the bottom end of an admittedly limited dynamic spectrum, and add bloom to the treble. These timeless performances belong in every serious classical collection. --Jed Distler

Customer Reviews:

Wow !!!! ska........2001-02-03

I just happened to be listening to Glen Gould's first recording (1955) of the Goldberg Variations when the postman delivered this - I put it on and almost fell out of my chair.

Talk about different worlds!

Here you have a harpsichord (a workhorse of a machine - not `original', but specially constructed for Wanda Landowska - muscular in sound) played with a wonderful sense of the dance rhythms of Bach's time and a marvellous lightness of touch.

The wash of romanticism given to the Variations since Ms Landowska's performances is swept away - and when you read the booklet notes and come to realise that this was the first performance on disc of the work, which was once considered unplayable, you cannot but admire and be thankful to the performer.

(This is why we now hear so much Bach played in concert!)

More modern performances might plunge deeper into the work, but none will replace this.

I have fallen instantly in love - and am looking to buy more of Landowska's Bach.

"You play it your way, my dear, and I'll play it HIS way...".......2000-02-13

...Wanda Landowska reportedly said to a colleague about the keyboard music of J.S. Bach. Purists may argue that her massive Pleyel harpsichord sounded nothing like the instruments of Bach's day, and that her approach was impetuously romantic and subjective. Listen to this set of newly remastered recordings, though, and it will never again be possible to hear these pieces without thinking of Landowska. More than any other pianist or harpsichordist on record, she captured the full range of Bach's energies: majesty, exuberance, desolation, ecstasy, redemption. In contrast to her ecclesiastical comportment and attire, Landowska played with an almost erotic abandon, yet in absolute technical control at all times.

Each of the selections reissued by EMI on this disc is a masterpiece recorded by Landowska in her prime. As remarkable as her performances of the 'Goldberg Variations' and the 'Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue' happen to be, the "Italian Concerto' reaches a level of exultation that is almost too much to bear.

Tracks:

Aria
Invention No.1 In C Major, BWV 772
Invention No.3 In D Major, BWV 774
Invention No.8 In F Major, BWV 779
I. Praeambulum
II. Allemande
III. Courante
IV. Sarabande
V. Tempo Di Minuetto
VI. Passepied
VII. Gigue
'Aria Variata Alla Maniera Italiana' In A Minor, BWV 989
Prelude
Fugue
Prelude
Fugue
Praeambulum In C Major, BWV 924
Praeambulum In F Major, BWV 927
Praeludium In D Minor, BWV 926
Praeludium In D Major, BWV 925
Praeludium In F Major, BWV 928
Praeambulum In G Minor, BWV 930
First Movement
I. Allemande
IV. Gavotte
VII. Gigue
Praeludium In C Major, BWV 933 From 6 Little Preludes, BWV 933-938
Chromatic Fantasy In D Minor, BWV 903a
I. Sinfonia
X. Gigue
I. ( )
II. Adagio
III. Presto
Variation 5 A 1 Ovvero 2 Clav.
Variation 30 A 1 Clav. Quodlibet
Aria Da Capo

Tracks:

Contrapunctus I
Contrapunctus II
Contrapunctus III
Contrapunctus IV
Contrapunctus V
Contrapunctus VI (A 4, Im Stile Francese)
Contrapunctus VII (A 4, Per Augmentationem Et Diminutionem)
Contrapunctus VIII (A 3)
Contrapunctus IX (A 4, Alla Duodecima)

Customer Reviews:

Gould selections for music newcomers!.......2006-02-21

As you know the excel passion of Gould for Bach 's music accompanied him along his lifetime. He not only rediscovered a new approach around Bach 's playing but besides he notably contributed to spread the taste for the Academic music all over the world. He represented the irreverent musician per excellence but his absolute domain of the musical socre, his absolute control and senes of every little bar made of him a must reference at the moment to establish fundamental parameters. He broke paradigms and gave back the music a renovated splendor.

Since his awful vanishing in 1982, a whole generation of new listeners, his name has become as cult pattern. So that is the mainreason to acquire this album, becuase it contains the minimum facets in the intrepretative art of the musician of musicians: Johann Sebastian Bach.

A Great CD..........2004-06-10

If you like Bach and Gould, this is a great CD to start out on, it covers a large variety of recordings by Glenn Gould, and is a great introduction to Bach. Overall this CD is a wonderful sampler, it'll make you want to go out and buy all of his Bach CD's. You wont regret buying this CD, it's something to cherish for years.

An odd assortment of Gould's "best" Bach.......2001-08-07

The "best of Glenn Gould's Bach" is a strange subtitle for a strange sampler. Coming several years after the Sony re-issues of remastered Gould recordings, this collection seems either belated or superfluous. Arguably, the selections don't even represent highlights from the corpi Gould tackled over the years. A disproportionate amount of space is given to relative obscurities, e.g. Aria Variata for keyboard ("in the Italian style"). Surely a legitimate "best of" would include a few more preludes/fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier? Also, the pace of the music over the length of the first disc is almost relentlessly brisk, like a treasury of vintage Dixieland piano rolls. The second disc is interesting as it includes 1 entire LP - Gould's performance on organ of 9 fugues from The Art of Fugue - plus videos of Gould performing fugues on piano. Consequently, while this set is not truly a "best of," it's a valuable collection of oddities and rarities and a worthwhile investment.

a gould sampling.......2000-12-03

this collection is a sampling of glenn gould's bach recordings, relying heavily on his 1955 edition of the goldberg variations and keeping in total the art of the fugue which gould recorded on organ. i would recommend the complete editions of each recording sampled here, but for an introduction to mr. gould and for a nice selection of bach piano, this album suffices.

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Take the plunge!.......2003-08-18

Anyone dubious about buying the Goldberg variations, or the Goldberg variations on the harpsichord, is not likely to regret the risk in picking up a copy of this marvellous classic performance for next to nothing.

From comments I have read there seems to be a belief in some quarters that the instrument Landowska uses is too high-powered to be authentic, but without having any specialised knowledge of the matter I shall risk putting a different view. I have some Couperin, who was a generation ahead of Bach, played by Blandine Verlet, and the first and striking impression you will get comes from the startling power and 'weight' of the instruments she uses. These instruments are contemporary with Couperin, they are if anything more powerful in tone than the seemingly contentious beast used by Landowska, so I have to be sceptical regarding the challenges to its authenticity.

What ought to be beyond any challenge is the performance itself. For majesty, poise, rhythmic bite, clarity of fingerwork, grasp of the baroque style and sheer enthusiasm I doubt we are ever likely to hear better than this. The recording is very respectable too, for its age. What we have here is one great and inspired intellectual interpreting an even greater. To gain the maximum pleasure and edification from this particular work, I have found it helpful to educate myself about it. What I have done is to follow the performance with Tovey's analytical notes, not the sort of thing I would do as a rule. Tovey can be patronising and supercilious, he can be hectoring and he can be downright childish at times, but his command of the technicalities combined with his transparent and shining love for the music make it easy to ignore all that. (In passing, I am pleased to have his scholarly endorsement of my own view, obviously shared by Landowska as well, that it is neither necessary nor desirable to play all repeats.) Bach expressed himself through intellectual devices, the expression he achieved through them ranks with the most sublime in the history of the art of music, and I doubt that any of us will get the most out of the Goldberg variations without going to some pains ourselves. 'Delightful is the prize without the effort' says Horace ironically. The prize here is great, and the effort does not amount to much anyway.

Bach: Chromatic Fantasy; Italian Concerto; Goldberg Variations (Aria)
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ASIN: B0000AH3EH
Release Date: 2003-09-01

Tracks:

Goldberg Variations, Bwv 988 (Aria)
2-4 Italian Concerto In F Major, Bwv 971
5-6 Chromatic Fantasy And Fugue In D Minor, Bwv 903a
Cappricio In B-Flat Major Bwv 992
8-10 Brandenburg Concerto No.5 In D Major, Bwv 1050

Album Details

First Time on CD. Digitally Remastered.

Customer Reviews:

Flawless expression !.......2006-05-01

All of us know how the interpretative grandness of Serkin enhanced with vertiginous speed since his constant and frequent collaborations with Pablo Casals in Prades Festival. In this sense, apart his natural talent, his vision around Bach acquired a major deepness and notable maturity. We have a striking evidence: his memorable 1957 Lugano Recital (fortunately available in CD).

We definitively have not had the chance to listen Rudolf Serkin playing Bach with major frequency we desired, and this is a very good option. These Goldberg are musically expressive. They possess the verticality and minutely precision in which the phrasing concerns; lyricism and expression. And, in spite of the fact there are true milestone performances in the whole musical firmament, we are talking about of one of the supreme pianists of the last Century.

Go for this album. The sound quality is fabulous.

BACK TO BACH.......2004-03-14

Not much of Serkin's Bach-playing has come down to us, sadly. During his lifetime it became unfashionable to play Bach in public on the piano. Tureck and others kept the tradition going, and of course it was revived in spectacular fashion by Gould. By now we seem to have got over the worst excesses of this particular cultural revolution, and my own attitude to the matter is and always has been that instruments are there for music and not the other way about. It all makes this disc a specially welcome reissue, and I would note in passing that the liner note is not strictly right in saying that none of the English or French suites from Serkin survive on record. In fact the 5th French suite is included in the disc that accompanies the fine 2003 biography of him.

In the Italian Concerto and Chromatic Fantasia I already owned performances by Gould and by Malcolm, the latter also giving us the fugue that normally accompanies the Fantasia. Making allowance for the obvious difference in the genius of a harpsichord from that of a concert grand, there is not a world of variety in the three artists' approaches. Malcolm takes the opening flourishes in the Fantasia faster than even two such piano-players would dare do on a resonant 8-foot grand, and he is rather more grandiose in the fugue than Serkin is. Serkin is a bit faster than the others in the first movement of the Italian Concerto, and in the last movement his speed is somewhere between Malcolm's fairly steady tempo and Gould's headlong and very exciting onrush. The slow movement, marked `andante', is my idea of adagio from all three of them. I am not scholar enough to offer an opinion on this - there is no mistaking what `andante' means in Handel, viz a definitely fastish tempo, but in Bach I'm not so sure and can only suppose that three such interpreters know what they're doing. The performance of the Capriccio on the Departure is from Puerto Rico in 1957, and intriguingly you can hear another performance by Serkin in Lugano in the same year, which comes as part of a hair-raisingly wonderful recital. That recital is incandescent, but it is not Serkin at his smoothest. This Puerto Rico performance has a crystalline aristocratic perfection, the touch in the Lugano reading is less even and there is a fluffed note somewhere, but the opening section of the Capriccio could bring tears to your eyes in a way he doesn't do this time. In the 5th Brandenburg the `marker' performance for me down the years has been from Menuhin and a Bath Festival group, with Malcolm taking the harpsichord solo. Serkin scales down his mighty touch to perfection, and if anyone equals or even surpasses Malcolm in the first movement cadenza it is Serkin. It appears to be taken in a single breath, but listen carefully - the rhythm seems so wonderfully straight precisely because it is not mechanically straight.

In the third millennium a record where the sound-quality is not top-class has to struggle for a fifth star, but I can't withold it from this record. It is not bad by any means, just not what we have come to expect nowadays. I recalled the account of how Serkin got his first opportunity, playing Bach to the Busch family. Adolf Busch exclaimed excitedly to the others `The way the boy plays you can see the whole score in front of you'. Just so. There is one slightly sad little extra here, the aria from the Goldberg variations, all that survives of a work Serkin was associated with all his life and that he was still practising on the counterpane of his deathbed. It is played at a dead-slow tempo as it ought to be, and I experienced a great wish to hear it again at the end of the record, rounding it off as Bach used it to round off his variations. I am in no doubt at all that Serkin would have disapproved of any such sentimental proceeding, but the advantage of cd technology is that I can do this if I want and nobody has to know.

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The Well-Tempered Cavier, Book I: D Major (BWV 850) Fugue
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The Well-Tempered Cavier, Book I: F Sharp Major (BWV 858) Fugue
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Goldberg Variations, Bwv,988: Aria (Andante espressivo)
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Goldberg Variations, Bwv,988: Variations 11-15
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Excellent harpischord playing, careless production
Excellent Reissue

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Goldberg Variations: Aria
Goldberg Variations: Variation 1. a 1 Clav.
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Goldberg Variations: Variation 3. a 1 Clav. Canone all'Unisono
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Goldberg Variations: Variation 5. a 1 ovvero 2 Clav.
Goldberg Variations: Variation 6. a 1 Clav. Canone alla Secondo
Goldberg Variations: Variation 7. a 1 ovvero 2 Clav. al tempo de Giga
Goldberg Variations: Variation 8. a 2 Clav.
Goldberg Variations: Variation 9. a 1 Clav. Canone alla Terza
Goldberg Variations: Variation 10. a 1 Clav. Fugetta
Goldberg Variations: Variation 11. a 2 Clav.
Goldberg Variations: Variation 12. a 1 Clav. Canone alla Quarta
Goldberg Variations: Variation 13. a 2 Clav.
Goldberg Variations: Variation 14. a 2 Clav.
Goldberg Variations: Variation 15. a 1 Clav. Canone alla Qinta, Andante
Goldberg Variations: Variation 16. a 1 Clav. Ouverture
Goldberg Variations: Variation 17.a 2 Clav.
Goldberg Variations: Variation 18. a 1 Clav. Canone alla Sexta
Goldberg Variations: Variation 19. a 1 Clav.
Goldberg Variations: Variation 20. a 2 Clav.
Goldberg Variations: Variation 21. a 1 Clav. Canone alla Settima
Goldberg Variations: Variation 22. a 1 Clav. alla breve
Goldberg Variations: Variation 23. a 2 Clav.
Goldberg Variations: Variation 24. a 1 Clav. Canone all'Ottava
Goldberg Variations: Variation 25. a 2 Clav. adagio
Goldberg Variations: Variation 26. a 2 Clav.
Goldberg Variations: Variation 27. a 2 Clav. Canone alla Nona
Goldberg Variations: Variation 28. a 2 Clav.
Goldberg Variations: Variation 29. a 1 ovvero 2 Clav.
Goldberg Variations: Variation 30. a 1 Clav. Quodlibet
Goldberg Variations: Aria da capo

Tracks:

Chromatic Fantasia And Fugue In D Minor: Fantasia - Recitativ. Fuga
Partita No. 1 In B Flat Major BWV 825: Praeludium
Partita No. 1 In B Flat Major BWV 825: Allemande
Partita No. 1 In B Flat Major BWV 825: Corrente
Partita No. 1 In B Flat Major BWV 825: Sarabande
Partita No. 1 In B Flat Major BWV 825: Minuets I And II
Partita No. 1 In B Flat Major BWV 825: Gigue
Toccata, Adagio And Fugue In G Major, BWV 916: Toccata
Toccata, Adagio And Fugue In G Major, BWV 916: Adagio
Toccata, Adagio And Fugue In G Major, BWV 916: Allegro e presto
Prelude, Fugue And Allegro In E Flat Major, BWV 998: Prelude
Prelude, Fugue And Allegro In E Flat Major, BWV 998: Fuga
Prelude, Fugue And Allegro In E Flat Major, BWV 998: Allegro
Italian Concerto In F Major, BWV 971: Allegro
Italian Concerto In F Major, BWV 971: Andante
Italian Concerto In F Major, BWV 971: Presto

Customer Reviews:

Excellent harpischord playing, careless production.......2005-08-12

Maggie Cole is a wonderful harpsichordist, and her performance here deserves five stars, no doubt about it. Her "Goldberg Variations" are lovely, and the complementary disc with the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue and several other pieces, including the Italian Concerto, are also very well-played. So why only four stars this time round? I think the following reasons are enough:
1. The stark difference in sound between the harpsichords on both CDs. Maggie Cole plays the shorter Bach pieces on a historical insrument from the year 1610 that would have been an antique in Bach's time: and that is just what it sounds like, very metallic and with lots of mechanical noise. This is very different from the beautiful copy of a French mid-eighteenth century instrument she chooses for the Goldbergs and needs some getting used to. In general, I wonder why so many harpsichordists prefer not to play Bach on German or Saxon instruments from the first half of the eighteenth century?
2. The tracks on the Goldberg CD have not been properly indexed, they jump too late while playing, making it impossible to program any individual numbers correctly. This is just pure carelessness on the part of Virgin Classics.
3. The accompanying documentation, if such one may call it, is far too cursory and contains much too little information to be of any real use.

Excellent Reissue.......2001-03-09

Originally released separately, these two discs can compete with some of the best harpsichord performances on record, and it is wonderful to see them back in print. While the acoustic can seem a bit distant at times, it suits Cole's instrument well. Listen especially to her playing in the Partita: the execution of the trills in the Prelude, the rolicking Courante, and a somewhat breathless Gigue. Like most performers, Cole omits several of the repeats in the Goldbergs (for reasons of space if for nothing else), which is a pity, since her ornamentations the second time around are so often excellent. With so many superlative recordings of the Goldbergs on harpsichord, it seems silly to give this one five stars, but the low price is an added incentive, if one is needed.

Track Listings:

Track Listings

A Blues Night in Dublin [Live]

The Calvin Owens Show: Keeping Big Band Blues Alive

The Ritchie Valens Story

1947: R&B Hits

A Bright Side

Bach: 6 Sonatas & Partitas For Violin Alone

20th Century Masters - Christmas Collection [Original recording remastered]

1923-1924

A New Morning, Changing Weather

107 FM Metroplois Hits [Import]

Adelante [CD-single] [Import]

Pure Vintage

Companion

1. Goldberg Variations, Bwv 988 (Aria)
2. 2-4 Italian Concerto In F Major, Bwv 971
3. 5-6 Chromatic Fantasy And Fugue In D Minor, Bwv 903a
4. Cappricio In B-Flat Major Bwv 992
5. 8-10 Brandenburg Concerto No.5 In D Major, Bwv 1050