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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bach’s Goldberg Variations are one of those classical masterpieces on which generations of interpreters have been able to leave especially deep marks—we now refer to certain recorded versions as if ...

Northampton, MA – The Smith College Department of Music presents a special concert of Bach’s Goldberg Variations by pianist Monica Jakuc Leverett in celebration of her 80 th birthday on Sunday, ...

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 ...