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Bach: Goldberg Variations. Markus Becker, piano. CPO 999 831.2
According to Bach's first biographer, Nikolaus Forkel, Bach wrote the Goldberg Variations in 1742 for a Count Keyserlingk, who requested them to be played by his protege, Johann Goldberg. The story is doubted by some authorities, as the young Goldberg was only in his early teens at the time, and the Variations are of undoubted complexity. Whatever the case, the Variations have come down to us in more-or-less nontraditional fashion, seldom even considered played as Bach intended. How is that? Well, the work was meant for harpsichord for one thing (and while there are many fine recordings nowadays on ...
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