Last year a campaign was designed to raise funds for a unique experiment: Create a completely free to the public, new score and recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations. The plan was ...

Chinese pianist Lang Lang went from being just one more fresh-faced and precocious teenaged phenomenon twenty years ago with his debut recording on Telarc, Lang Lang (2001), featuring the heady ...

St. Mary’s Chapel was filled to capacity by the time Peter Watchorn sat down to play Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Music students, faculty, and fans alike packed every pew, with ...

Professional percussionists Katalin La Favre and Brian Calhoon have created an innovative way to perform Bach’s “Goldberg Variations.” They’re using two vibraphones, a refurbished antique glockenspiel ...

Friederike Fabritius, MS, author of The Brain-Friendly Workplace, relies on one classical track to lock in her focus: Bach's Goldberg Variations. pressmaster - stock.adobe.com Bach to the future: ...

Forty years ago, on September 2, 1982 - the year of Michael Jackson's Thriller and Steven Spielberg's E.T. - Glenn Gould's legendary second recording of the Goldberg Variations closed a circle that ...

Pianist Lim Yun-chan, 22 years old, holds solo recitals even in his dreams. In a written interview ahead of the release of his album of Bach’s *Goldberg Variations* on the 6th, he said, “A few days ...

Goldberg Variations Wolfgang Rübsam, Lute harpsichord Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer There is already a rich catalogue of recordings made on the Lautenwerk, or lute-harpsichord, by the organist, ...

In the “Goldberg Variations,” one of his most justly famous works for keyboard, Bach took a simple melody and subjected it to a comprehensive series of treatments. Is that really so different from ...