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Bach's Goldberg Variations demystified.
If pianists were to play a word association game in which a psychologist said, "Bach's Goldberg Variations," they would almost without fail respond with the name "Glenn Gould." Gould's landmark recording from 1955 has had both positive and negative impacts on modern performers. It has been positive because it introduces pianists to one of Bach's best works, which up to the time had been largely ignored. Thanks to the pioneering vision of Gould, and Wanda Landowska for harpsichordists, one now can choose from literally dozens of recordings by major artists on piano, harpsichord, organ, orchestral transcriptions and even synthesizers. (1) The negative impact of Gould's ...
- Italian Concerto
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE January 1, 1996 700+ words
Italian Concerto. Instr. comp. by Bach for solo hpd. with 2 manuals, pubd. in 2nd section of Klavierübung , 1735. He seems to have...
- BAROQUE FEST FEATURES GOLDBERG VARIATIONS.(PREVIEW)(Concert review)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) July 4, 1996 700+ words
...does dub Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations one of the greatest achievements...complete performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations. It will be held in the newly refurbished...Conant performs the complete hourlong Goldberg Variations without a break on Sunday in one...
- NEARLY GOOD AS GOULD: Perahia's 'Goldberg Variations'.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Ivry, Benjamin November 17, 2000 700+ words
...Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations (1741) has rightly entered...many listeners enjoy the Goldberg Variations for more earthly purposes...mastery and virtuosity, the Goldberg Variations were for many years thought...
- Bach: The Goldberg Variations. (Book Reviews: Works).(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Notes Dirst, Matthew December 1, 2002 700+ words
Bach: The Goldberg Variations. By Peter Williams. (Cambridge...concise guide to Bach's Goldberg Variations. The latest of the Cambridge...is known about not only the Goldberg Variations but also the other three volumes...
- The role of music in Gabriel Josipovici's Goldberg: variations.
- Magazine article from: Style Wolf, Werner September 22, 2003 700+ words
Introduction: Goldberg: Variations and The Tradition of Art...the other arts. (2) In Goldberg: Variations (2002), Josipovici not...Manifestations of Music in Goldberg: Variations Music appears mainly in...
- More jazz than not.(THE MUSIC)(Bach: Goldberg Variations)(Sound recording...
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound August 1, 2007 700+ words
Bach: Goldberg Variations (arranged for String Trio...It is hard to think of the Goldberg Variations without thinking of the late...the keyboard version of the Goldberg Variations, or perhaps I should say especially...
- Bach: Goldberg Variations Les Violins du Roy/Bernard Labadie (Dorian...
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Nehring, Karl W. September 1, 2000 700+ words
Bach: Goldberg Variations Les Violins du Roy/Bernard Labadie (Dorian xCD-90281...that it is arranged. Here, for example, we have the famous Goldberg Variations played not on a keyboard, but by a small string group with...
- Bach: Goldberg Variations. Andras Schiff, piano. London Penguin Classics 289...
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John August 1, 1999 700+ words
Bach: Goldberg Variations. Andras Schiff, piano. London Penguin Classics 289 460 611-2. I've never quite decided which version of the Goldberg Variations I prefer, one played on a harpsichord as Bach envisioned it or on a modern piano...