Artist: Stefan Donner Title: The Joannes Daniel Dulcken Harpsichord: J.S. Bach – Goldberg Variations Year Of Release: 2025 Label: Gramola Records Genre: Classical Quality: FLAC (tracks) 24 Bit (88,2 KHz / tracks) Total Time: 100:40 min Total Size: 1,9 GB

Tracklist:

CD1:

1. Aria
2. Variatio 1 (à 1 clav.)
3. Variatio 2 (à 1 clav.)
4. Variatio 3 Canone all unisuono (à 1 clav.)
5. Variatio 4 (à 1 clav.)
6. Variatio 5 (à 1 o vero 2 clav.)
7. Variatio 6 Canone alla seconda (à 1 clav.)
8. Variatio 7 al tempo di Giga (à 1 o vero 2 clav.)
9. Variatio 8 (à 2 clav.)
10. Variatio 9 Canone alla terza (à 1 clav.)
11. Variatio 10 Fugetta (à 1 clav.)
12. Variatio 11 (à 2 clav.)
13. Variatio 12 Canone alla quarta
14. Variatio 13 (à 2 clav.)
15. Variatio 14 (à 2 clav.)
16. Variatio 15 Canone alla quinta (à 1 clav.)

CD2:

1. Variatio 16 Ouverture (à 1 clav.)
2. Variatio 17 (à 2 clav.)
3. Variatio 18 Canone alla sexta (à 1 clav.)
4. Variatio 19 (à 1 clav.)
5. Variatio 20 (à 2 clav.)
6. Variatio 21 Canone alla settima
7. Variatio 22 alla breve (à 1 clav.)
8. Variatio 23 (à 2 clav.)
9. Variatio 24 Canone al ottava (à 1 clav.)
10. Variatio 25 adagio (à 2 clav.)
11. Variatio 26 (à 2 clav.)
12. Variatio 27 Canone alla nona (à 2 clav.)
13. Variatio 28 (à 2 clav.)
14. Variatio 29 (à 1 o vero 2 clav.)
15. Variatio 30 Quodlibet (à 1 clav.)
16. Aria da capo e fine

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