Aria Variation 1 a 1 Clav Variation 2 a 1 Clav Variation 3 a 1 Clav. Canone all' Unisuono ... more
Variation 4 a 1 Clav Variation 5 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav. Variation 6 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Seconda Variation 7 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav. Variation 8 a 2 Clav. Variation 9 a 1...
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Crossover tends to be regarded as a recent phenomenon dreamt up by record company ... more
executives desperate to find a way of shifting more classical records. But if you have come across the likes of Jacques Loussier you will know that it's all been going on for some while and for much higher minded reasons. All of 40 years ago Loussier identified that dour old Lutheran J S Bach was at heart something of a jazzer and he's been making a living on the back of it ever since. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of JSB's death, Loussier's dazzling trio returns to its favoured territory with this take on the Goldberg Variations, a series of double keyboard harpsichord pieces written in 1742. Neatly for jazz aficionados, the theme on which Bach so neatly elaborated turns out to be based on the same kind of 32 bar bass pattern that underpins so many of Tin Pan Alley's greatest, but this shouldn't be mistaken for a jazz album. Jazz fans will certainly groove, but it should hit a wider audience. Loussier has perhaps been here before, but he is still a peerless pianist, and drummer Andre Arpino confirms his status as one of the best. --Stewart Collins
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Advantages: Great piano playing of a great Bach composition. Disadvantages: None
One of Gould's final recordings, this is probably the definitive piano version of Bach's keyboard masterpiece. Gould runs the theme & thirty variations as a unified whole. His playing is characterised by clear fast passages, crisp ornaments and controlled, intense playing of the slow variations (nos.15 & 26). Even his humming along to the music does not detract from a joyous performance. The final section from variation 27 to the slow return to the theme is pianism at its most uplifting.
The piano sound is clear without being dry & compares favourably with most up to date piano recordings. This is a disc to convert anyone to Bach & indeed to Gould's pianistic genius. ...
Advantages: Elegant, refreshingly stimulating, articulate Goldberg Variations. Disadvantages: (For US residents) Import CD from British Hyperion label costs more than the average.
Elegant, refreshingly stimulating, with an amazing clarity and articulation--these words might sum up Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt's cerebral yet sensitive rendition of Johann Sebastian Bach's GoldbergVariations. Hewitt has been described as the new interpreter of Bach, "nothing less than the pianist who will define Bach performance on the piano for years to come," Stereophile declared in 1998.
I don't doubt that at all. And I blame the US National Public Radio for sparking a curiosity about Hewitt. A morning program on NPR featured her piano transcriptions of popular Bach tunes in late ?01. I liked--very much--what I heard. There was no question a Bach recording of hers was going to be joining fellow Bach CDs in my library.
Compared to the widely praised and honored Murray Perahia disc from the year before, Hewitt's Goldbergs ...
Advantages: Reassures and comforts me! Disadvantages: Taste, might not work for everyone
♣Doubting the miracle♣
It was around this time last year that my airplane phobia increased to an intolerable level. We were visiting my boyfriend?s family for Christmas ? and I simply could not face the plane journey back. His mother kindly told me that I needed to ?snap out of it? and handed me a little yellow box with Bach?s Rescue Remedy. I eyed it suspiciously. I never believed in such herbal miracles. But I took the box and sitting at the airport, I remember taking quite a bit of this product to calm my nerves. I honestly do not remember if it worked at the time, but I did make it back home somehow ? didn?t I? The bottle then disappeared in a draw, not to be remembered until ?
? I next encountered the Rescue Remedy when I left my somewhat quiet job for a hectic city job. A colleague handed me a leaving present in ...
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Product details
Title
Bach: Goldberg Variations (1955)
Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Main Performer
Glenn Gould (Piano)
Date of Release
26/07/2004
Recomended Retail Price
5.99 GBP
Label / Distributor
Sony / BMG UK
Pieces in Set
1
Running Time
1 hour 59 minutes
Genre(s)
Instrumental
Stereo
Mono
SPAR Code
ADD
EAN
5099751747925
Catalogue Number
5174792
Work 1
Work Title
Goldberg Variations, BWV988
Excerpt(s)
1. Aria 2. Variation I 3. Variation II 4. Variation III (Canone all'unisono) 5. Variation IV 6. Variation V 7. Variation VI (Canone alla seconda) 8. Variation VII 9. Variation VIII 10. Variation IX (Canone alla terza) 11. Variation X (Fughetta) 12. Variation XI 13. Variation XII (Canone alla quarta) 14. Variation XIII 15. Variation XIV 16. Variation XV (Canone alla Quinta in moto contrario) 17. Variation XVI (Ouverture) 18. Variation XVII 19. Variation XVIII (Canone alla sesta) 20. Variation XIX 21. Variation XX 22. Variation XXI (Canone alla settima) 23. Variation XXII 24. Variation XXIII 25. Variation XXIV (Canone all'ottava) 26. Variation XXV 27. Variation XXVI 28. Variation XXVII (Canone alla nona) 29. Variation XXVIII 30. Variation XXIX 31. Variation XXX (Quodlibet)
Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Genre
Instrumental
Date Written
1741-42
Main Performer
Glenn Gould (Piano)
Opera Part(s)
Glenn Gould
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