Tuscan Guitar Duo - Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcription for 2 Guitars by Emilio Ghezzi) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 85:37 minutes | 1,58 GB
Classical | Label: Da Vinci Classics, Official Digital Download
Bach’s Clavier Übung is a good example of an understatement. Übung means exercise, practice; if one were to judge the book by its cover, the obvious deduction would be that Bach’s Clavier Übung is a set of finger exercises, in the fashion of Hanon or Czerny. To be sure, Domenico Scarlatti’s magnificent keyboard Sonatas are likewise called Essercizii, “exercises”; and they are far from a dry form of gymnastics for fingers. Moreover, etymologically “exercitium” relates to training in the martial arts (from exercitus, the army); thus, it was also a training in virtue. The Latin word virtus is at the root of its English translation, “virtue”, but is also related to vir, man (the soldier, the hero), and to “virtuosity”, which today indicates also technical prowess and musical accomplishment.