Renowned harpsichordist Jean Rondeau presents a new view of Bach’s Goldberg Variations at this year’s Bachfest Schaffhausen, ...

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 ...

Pianist Tianqi Du presents Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and 7th Avenue, NYC on Saturday, April 21, 2018, at 7:30pm. Tickets, priced ...

Count Keyserlingk, the insomniac Russian ambassador to the Kingdom of Saxony for whom Johann Sebastian Bach may have written the Goldberg Variations, supposedly rewarded the composer with a golden ...

Goldberg Variations Wolfgang Rübsam, Lute harpsichord Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer There is already a rich catalogue of recordings made on the Lautenwerk, or lute-harpsichord, by the organist, ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” has taken on an iconic place in today’s music world ever since Canadian pianist Glenn Gould’s blockbuster recording of the work in 1956. At least one ...

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 ...

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 ...

Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson captivated a sold-out audience at the Shanghai Symphony Hall on May 31 with a mesmerizing 75-minute performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Goldberg Variations." ...

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 ...

‘Do it on the radio’ was the title-character’s suggestion in Willy Russell’s Educating Rita when asked how to resolve the staging difficulties inherent in a production of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt. ‘Do it on ...