Projo Subterranean Homepage News

Bottom-up journalism from the pros: News, tech and culture by Sheila Lennon
· Headlines · 25 words · Photos · Tag cloud · RSS · MultiBlog
« The physicist who thought he was on another planet | Main | 10th Street Painting Festival Saturday in Providence honors a vanishing art »

Mp3s: Bach's 'Goldberg Variations'

8:11 AM Mon, Sep 21, 2009 |
By Sheila Lennon    Email this author |   Email this entry

Easing quietly into a new week...

AHbachFrs.jpgANGELA HEWITT
Bach - Goldberg Variations BWV 988 [no label, 1CD]
Live at the Royal Festival Hall, London, UK, April 29, 2009. An excellent FM stereo broadcast.

Bach's Goldberg Variations is the piano composition that studies the form of variation. When Angela Hewitt offered her version, the Penguin Guide and Gramophone applauded her recording, marking it a classic interpretation. Early this year, Hewitt chose to perform the Goldberg Variations live and did not disappoint all those in attendance.

For other noobs like us, JS Bach wrote this piece and had it published in 1741. It has become a standard for "keyboard practice". Legend has it Bach wrote it for an insomniac Count ...

Bookmark and Share

 Tags  classical mp3s music


Leave a comment





Type the characters you see in the picture above.