Goldberg Variations Archive

BACH: Goldberg Variations – Zhu Xiao-Mei, p. (2014)

BACH: Goldberg Variations – Zhu Xiao-Mei, p. (2014)

BACH: Goldberg Variations – Zhu Xiao-Mei, p. (2014) Zhu Xiao-Mei life’s work culminates in her profoundly personal live performance at Leipzig’s St. Thomas Church. BACH: Goldberg Variations complete perf. by Zhu Xiao-Mei, piano Director: Paul Smaczny Studio: Accentus Music 42 6023483 076 7 (10/14) [Distr. by Naxos] Video: for 16:9 screens, color Audio:  PCM Stereo, […]

BACH: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 – Bassoon Consort Frankfurt – MDG

BACH: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 – Bassoon Consort Frankfurt – MDG

BACH: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 – Bassoon Consort Frankfurt – Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm multichannel SACD MDG 903 1914-6, 76:51 (10-30-15) (also 2+2+2) [Distr. by eOne] *****:  A most unusual instrumental arrangement of Bach’s Goldbergs. Since it was first written, Bach’s music has been rewritten. First it was by Bach himself in numerable re-uses, elaborations […]

BACH: Goldberg Variations – Alexandre Tharaud, p. – Erato/Warner Classics +  video DVD

BACH: Goldberg Variations – Alexandre Tharaud, p. – Erato/Warner Classics + video DVD

BACH: Goldberg Variations – Alexandre Tharaud, piano – Erato/Warner Classics 0825646051779, 75:13 + video DVD (16:9), PCM stereo (12/4/15) *****: After a slow, elegant, spaced-out Aria theme, relentlessly hip Alexandre Tharaud proceeds to give a freewheeling 21st century piano virtuoso’s bird’s eye view of the Goldberg Variations. Whatever the attitudes he adopts as he proceeds […]