The Joannes Daniel Dulcken Harpsichord: J.S. Bach – Goldberg Variations Stefan Donner

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Aria:
• 1 Bach: Aria 04:14
• Variations:
• 2 Bach: Variatio 1 (à 1 clav.) 02:29
• 3 Bach: Variatio 2 (à 1 clav.) 02:02
• 4 Bach: Variatio 3 Canone all unisuono (à 1 clav.) 02:39
• 5 Bach: Variatio 4 (à 1 clav.) 01:29
• 6 Bach: Variatio 5 (à 1 o vero 2 clav.) 02:27
• 7 Bach: Variatio 6 Canone alla seconda (à 1 clav.) 01:36
• 8 Bach: Variatio 7 al tempo di Giga (à 1 o vero 2 clav.) 02:12
• 9 Bach: Variatio 8 (à 2 clav.) 02:52
• 10 Bach: Variatio 9 Canone alla terza (à 1 clav.) 02:27
• 11 Bach: Variatio 10 Fugetta (à 1 clav.) 02:03
• 12 Bach: Variatio 11 (à 2 clav.) 02:55
• 13 Bach: Variatio 12 Canone alla quarta 04:07
• 14 Bach: Variatio 13 (à 2 clav.) 05:24
• 15 Bach: Variatio 14 (à 2 clav.) 03:15
• 16 Bach: Variatio 15 Canone alla quinta (à 1 clav.) 04:34
• 17 Bach: Variatio 16 Ouverture (à 1 clav.) 03:30
• 18 Bach: Variatio 17 (à 2 clav.) 03:12
• 19 Bach: Variatio 18 Canone alla sexta (à 1 clav.) 01:55
• 20 Bach: Variatio 19 (à 1 clav.) 01:39
• 21 Bach: Variatio 20 (à 2 clav.) 03:10
• 22 Bach: Variatio 21 Canone alla settima 03:57
• 23 Bach: Variatio 22 alla breve (à 1 clav.) 01:47
• 24 Bach: Variatio 23 (à 2 clav.) 03:38
• 25 Bach: Variatio 24 Canone al ottava (à 1 clav.) 04:00
• 26 Bach: Variatio 25 adagio (à 2 clav.) 06:30
• 27 Bach: Variatio 26 (à 2 clav.) 03:00
• 28 Bach: Variatio 27 Canone alla nona (à 2 clav.) 03:07
• 29 Bach: Variatio 28 (à 2 clav.) 03:53
• 30 Bach: Variatio 29 (à 1 o vero 2 clav.) 03:36
• 31 Bach: Variatio 30 Quodlibet (à 1 clav.) 02:13
• Aria da capo e fine:
• 32 Bach: Aria da capo e fine 04:32
• Total Runtime 01:40:24

Info for The Joannes Daniel Dulcken Harpsichord: J.S. Bach – Goldberg Variations

The harpsichord from 1745 by Joannes Daniel Dulcken bearing the inventory number SAM 726 not only is an instrument 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 its 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, its playability was restored in several stages, with its sound now documented for the first time on this album.

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 its publication in 1741 to the time of the instrument’s creation.

Stefan Donner, harpsichord Joannes Daniel Dulcken, Antwerpen 1745

Stefan Donner
+earned degrees from the University of Music Vienna (with highest honors) where he studied organ, piano, and conducting. He also received a Master's degree in organ performance from the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Additionally, Stefan has participated in master classes with Olivier Latry, Joris Verdin, and Edoardo Bellotti. He notably received a 2014-15 Fulbright Scholarship to study organ and harpsichord at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.

Stefan is the recipient of various awards, including First Prize in the 2010 Franz-Schmidt-Organ Competition (Austria) and Third Prize in the 2011 Dublin International Organ Competition. Besides various radio and television recordings, Stefan has recorded CDs on the 1741 Dacci organ of St. Salvator in Vienna and on the 1862 Buckow organ in the musical instruments collection of the Vienna Museum of Technology. In 2018 a CD recording with organ works by Austrian composers from the 20th and 21 st century on the Rieger-Organ at Schlosskapelle Schönbrunn was released. These albums notably document his artistic proficiency as a concert organist.

Stefan has performed extensively in Europe, Turkey, Israel, Kazakhstan, Russia (Kaliningrad Cathedral and Moscow International Performing Arts Center), Canada, the USA (St. Patrick's Cathedral NYC, Grace Cathedral San Francisco, Mechanics Hall Worcester und Methuen Memorial Music Hall) and Australia. In 2017 he was invited to lecture on J. S. Bach's organ Trio Sonatas at the Wtadystaw Zelenski Secondary School of Music in Krakow, Poland. In August 2024 he also gave an organ masterclass at the Conservatory of Almaty in Kazakhstan.

Donner's previously held positions include Interim Director of Music and Organist at Klosterneuburg Abbey from 2020 to 2021. Beside his busy concert schedule, Mr Donner currently teaches organ, piano and music theory at Franz Schmidt-Musikschule Perchtoldsdorf amongst others and works as an accompanist.

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