Just as Miles Davis' Kind of Blue was one of those jazz albums you saw in the collections of people who otherwise didn't listen to jazz, Glenn Gould's 1955 LP of Bach's Goldberg Variations stuck out ...

Only a musician of intrepid character attempts Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations. One of the summits of the keyboard repertoire, this sublime collection of theme and 30 variations teems with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is being released on Deutsche Grammophon today in two complementary performances given by the pianist. The first was recorded in a single take in concert at the legendary St. Thomas Church in ...

Hear the iconic pianist play a wide range of music, from Brahms and Gibbons to Schoenberg and Strauss. Glenn Gould: Beyond Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' Glenn Gould: Beyond Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' ...

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, ...

Promising to give it “the full monty,” British harpsichord maestro Richard Egarr, making his first solo tour of the United States, will perform J.S. Bach’s masterwork, the “Goldberg Variations,” as ...

Icelandic pianist Vikingur Olafsson passionately confessed his deep affection for Johann Sebastian Bach and the “Goldberg Variations.” “I have been dreaming about recording the Goldberg Variations for ...