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 ...

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 ...

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Pianists are measured against one another by how they handle benchmark compositions. For instance, with their rigor and accessibility, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations helped bestow master ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Parker Ramsay thinks so. He has arranged the “Goldberg” Variations, a keyboard classic, for the modern pedal harp. By Parker Ramsay I suppose I have ...

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, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The harpsichordist Jean Rondeau played the “Goldberg” Variations at Weill Recital Hall with patience and a vibrant yet subtle touch. By ...

Pianist Yunchan Lim is on fire. Just 20 years old and still in studies at the New England Conservatory, he is the youngest-ever winner of the gold medal at the prestigious Van Cliburn Competition.

The work has a unique aura surrounding it, partly due to its immortalisation on screen, in books, and through certain seminal recordings. Perhaps like no other piece by Bach, the Goldbergs have ...

Bach’s Goldberg Variations are one of those classical masterpieces on which generations of interpreters have been able to leave especially deep marks—we now refer to certain recorded versions as if ...

Bach Goldberg VariationsLater in the hour, conductor Bernard Labadie leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in selections from Handel's Messiah. For now, we hear him with Les Violons du Roy in two ...