Helmut Walcha – Bach: Goldberg Variations by Helmut Walcha (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:33 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Classical
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Walcha went blind at the age of nineteen as a result of an early childhood smallpox vaccination. He passed the entrance examination at the Leipzig Conservatory at the age of 15 and became the youngest organ student of Günther Ramin. There he developed into an important Bach interpreter. From 1926 to 1929 he was Ramin’s deputy at the Thomaskirche. from 1929 to 1944 he regularly performed organ cycles as organist of the Friedenskirche in Frankfurt am Main and from 1933 taught at the Hoch Conservatory. in 1938, the conservatory was transferred to the State University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main; Walcha was appointed professor of organ and head of the church music department (emeritus in 1972).
After the Second World War, Walcha founded the Institute for Church Music in Frankfurt and was organist at the Epiphany Church from 1946 to 1981. From 1957 to 1961 he designed the organ built by Karl Schuke. His organ Vespers, which were founded in 1947 and designed on the Leipzig model, have a firm place in the weekly calendar of the Epiphany Church to this day. On Saturdays at 17 o’clock (from the 1st of Advent to Easter) readings, prayer and music are combined here.
Walcha earned a worldwide reputation as a bach interpreter. Between 1947 and 1952 he made the first recording, in 1971 he completed the second comprehensive recording of Bach’s organ work, begun in 1956. Walcha reissued scores by Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Händel, but also wrote his own chorale preludes, cantatas and musicological organ studies. Walcha was a profound connoisseur of early and high Baroque German organ compositions. With a last concert in 1981, Walcha finally said goodbye to the public musical life.
Tracklist:
1-1. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria (Remastered 2022) (03:10)
1-2. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 1 a 1 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (02:14)
1-3. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 2 a 1 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (01:44)
1-4. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 3 a 1 Clav. Canone all’ Unisuono (Remastered 2022) (02:39)
1-5. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 4 a 1 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (01:19)
1-6. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 5 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (01:57)
1-7. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 6 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Seconda (Remastered 2022) (01:29)
1-8. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 7 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (01:44)
1-9. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 8 a 2 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (02:32)
1-10. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 9 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Terza (Remastered 2022) (01:48)
1-11. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 10 a 1 Clav. Fughetta (Remastered 2022) (01:41)
1-12. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 11 a 2 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (02:08)
1-13. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 12 Canone alla Quarta (Remastered 2022) (02:50)
1-14. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 13 a 2 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (03:49)
1-15. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 14 a 2 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (02:22)
1-16. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 15 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Quinta. Andante (Remastered 2022) (03:20)
1-17. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 16 Ouverture a 1 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (03:25)
1-18. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 17 a 2 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (02:19)
1-19. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 18 – Canone alla Sesta a 1 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (01:39)
1-20. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 19 a 1 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (01:33)
1-21. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 20 a 2 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (02:32)
1-22. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 21 Canone alla Settima (Remastered 2022) (02:15)
1-23. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 22 Alla breve a 1 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (01:31)
1-24. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 23 a 2 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (02:16)
1-25. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 24 Canone all’ Ottava a 1 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (02:47)
1-26. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 25 a 2 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (05:14)
1-27. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 26 a 2 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (02:29)
1-28. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 27 Canone alla Nona (Remastered 2022) (02:13)
1-29. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 28 a 2 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (02:37)
1-30. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 29 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav. (Remastered 2022) (02:12)
1-31. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 30 a 1 Clav. Quodlibet (Remastered 2022) (01:47)
1-32. Helmut Walcha – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria da capo (Remastered 2022) (01:43)
