This is very special. All of Angela Hewitt’s Bach recordings to date have been made in Germany on her favourite piano and with her chosen producer, Ludger Böckenhoff. For this recording of the Goldbergs, a work for which she has especial reverence, Angela inspected several venues in Britain. Accordingly she and Ludger, the piano and piano technician Gerd Finkenstein, travelled from Germany to London’s Henry Wood Hall where no fewer than five days were allocated to record the work. Finally satisfied artistically, Angela finished the recording at the end of the fifth day, after which she went home for a bath and something to eat. Everybody then went back to HWH in the middle of the night and recorded the whole thing again, without a break. After a few final adjustments in the editing room, that is the performance which appears on this disc.
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Aria[4’12]
2
Variation 1: a 1 Clav.[1’43]
3
Variation 2: a 1 Clav.[1’42]
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Variation 3: Canone all’Unisuono. a 1 Clav.[2’13]
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Variation 4: a 1 Clav.[1’03]
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Variation 5: a 1 ô vero 2 Clav.[1’32]
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Variation 6: Canone alla Secunda. a 1 Clav.[1’42]
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Variation 7: a 1 ô vero 2 Clav. Al tempo di Giga[2’05]
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Variation 8: a 2 Clav.[1’54]
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Variation 9: Canone alla Terza. a 1 Clav.[1’48]
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Variation 10: Fughetta. a 1 Clav.[1’38]
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Variation 11: a 2 Clav.[2’07]
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Variation 12: Canone alla Quarta. a 1 Clav.[2’34]
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Variation 13: a 2 Clav.[4’35]
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Variation 14: a 2 Clav.[2’09]
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Variation 15: Canone alla Quinta. a 1 Clav. Andante[4’29]
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Variation 16: Ouverture. a 1 Clav.[3’11]
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Variation 17: a 2 Clav.[2’12]
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Variation 18: Canone alla Sexta. a 1 Clav.[1’28]
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Variation 19: a 1 Clav.[1’36]
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Variation 20: a 2 Clav.[1’53]
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Variation 21: Canone alla Settima. a 1 Clav.[2’45]
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Variation 22: a 1 Clav.[1’23]
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Variation 23: a 1 Clav.[2’09]
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Variation 24: Canone all’Ottava. a 1 Clav.[3’03]
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Variation 25: a 2 Clav. Adagio[7’54]
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Variation 26: a 2 Clav.[2’00]
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Variation 27: Canone alla Nona. a 2 Clav.[1’55]
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Variation 28: a 2 Clav.[2’17]
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Variation 29: a 1 ô vero 2 Clav.[2’18]
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Variation 30: Quodlibet. a 1 Clav.[2’08]
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Aria da capo[2’40]