Jörg Demus - The Bach Recordings on Westminster (11CD)

Bach playing to refresh the spirits as well as satisfy the mind: the early recordings of consummate Viennese pianist, Jörg Demus, unfailingly lively as well as faithful.

By his own account, Bach’s music came easily and straightforwardly to Demus as a talented teenager at the piano. Though he made his official concert debut as a pianist playing Beethoven, it was his four-concert cycle of The Well-Tempered Clavier, as a recent graduate of the Wiener Akademie, that set Demus on the path of a career which soon attracted the attention of US labels such as Remington and Westminster. From the late-1950s onwards he recorded the major works of Bach gathered here.

TRACK LIST

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750)

CDs 1–2
The Well-Tempered Clavier – Book I

CDs 3–4
The Well-Tempered Clavier – Book II

CDs 5–6
Partitas Nos. 1–6

CD 7
Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (1953 mono recording)

CD 8
Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (1963 stereo recording)

CD 9
Capriccio in B flat major ‘On the Departure of a Beloved Brother’, BWV 992
Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach (selections)
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903
Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971

CDs 10–11
Keyboard Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052
Keyboard Concerto in E major, BWV 1053
Concerto in C major for Two Keyboards, Strings and Continuo, BWV 1061
Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056
Concerto in C minor for Two Keyboards, Strings and Continuo, BWV 1060
Keyboard Concerto in A major, BWV 1055
Jörg Demus & Paul Badura-Skoda, pianos
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Kurt Redel

Jörg Demus, piano