Oslo Sinfonietta - The Joannes Daniel Dulcken Harpsichord; Johann Sebastian Bach - - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The harpsichord from 1745 by Joannes Daniel Dulcken bearing the inventory number SAM 726 not only is aninstrument with a beautiful and most distinctive sound it also commands admiration as a visually magnificent exhibition piece. Nothing is known about the original owners, but over the course of a century and a half it found it's way from the production site in Antwerp to Vienna, where it was added to the collection of Historic Musical Instruments at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in 1921. In the following decades, it's playability was restored in several stages, with it's sound now documented for the first time on this CD. The internationally acclaimed Austrian organist and harpsichordist Stefan Donner presents the Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach, one of the most famous variation cycles in music history, which is also an ideal choice of program due to the immediate proximity of it's publication in 1741 to the time of the instrument's creation Album Tracks 1. Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988~Aria 2. Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988~Variatio 1 (à 1 clav.) 3. Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988~Variatio 2 (à 1 clav.) 4. Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988~Variatio 3 Canone all unisuono (à 1 clav.) 5. Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988~Variatio 4 (à 1 clav.) 6. Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988~Variatio 5 (à 1 o vero 2 clav.) 7. Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988~Variatio 6 Canone alla seconda (à 1 clav.) 8. Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988~Variatio 7 al tempo di Giga (à 1 o vero 2 clav.) 9. Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988~Variatio 8 (à 2 clav.) 10. Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988~Variatio 9 Canone alla terza (à 1 clav.) 11. Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988~Variatio 10 Fugetta (à 1 clav.) 12. Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988~Variatio 11 (à 2 clav.) 13. Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988~Variatio 12 Canone alla quarta 14. Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988~Variatio 13 (à 2 clav.) 15. Goldberg