While there are many facets of this complex work that can be revealed by other versions, which might make use of expanded ...

Pianists are measured against one another by how they handle benchmark compositions. For instance, with their rigor and accessibility, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations helped bestow master ...

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 ...

In this week's issue of the magazine, the Money Issue, pianist Jeremy Denk revisits a kitschy musician-for-hire gig from early in his career. Denk was just awarded a fellowship by the MacArthur ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” has taken on an iconic place in today’s music world ever since Canadian pianist Glenn Gould’s blockbuster recording of the work in 1956. At least one ...

RSNO Chamber Series Bach’s Goldberg Variations JS Bach arr D Sitkovetsky Goldberg Variations BWV988 RSNO String Trio They say that Bach wrote his Goldberg Variations to soothe a nobleman during his ...

It’s been said that Bach’s Goldberg Variations put Glenn Gould on the map. In 1955, this Canadian pianist, 22 years old and all but unknown, chose the piece for his debut recording, and the sheer ...

An early biography of composer J.S. Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forke tells the story of how the famous variations known as Goldberg Variations came to be. Bach received a commission from Count Hermann ...

Today on the subway I was sitting, idiotically studying the score of the Goldbergs (how does this piece go again?) and next to me there was a kid slumped spectacularly, taking up three seats somehow, ...

Later in the hour, conductor Bernard Labadie leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in selections from Handel's Messiah. For now, we hear him with Les Violons du Roy in two variations from Bach's Goldberg ...