The sheet music the pianist used for his iconic 1981 recording of the Goldberg Variations is expected to fetch between $100,000 and $150,000 In 1981, just a year before he died, the great Canadian ...

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 ...

Legend has it that Johann Sebastian Bach composed the Baroque masterpiece known as the "Goldberg Variations" for an insomniac ambassador to be played on sleepless nights by the diplomat’s teenage ...

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Jane Jones explores ‘Music which rests lightly on the wings of the unchecked wind.’ I was captivated by these words from the legendary Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, re-cycling a quote from Beaudelaire ...

Most arrangements of Bach’s adaptable music aim to bring it up to date for modern instruments; this group of transcriptions adapt it to the resources of the time but in new guises. So the great organ ...