Johann Sebastian Bach - Bach: Goldberg Variations - Import CD

Credits:

Johann Sebastian Bach

Description:

The Gortberg Variations are one of the few works that can be played repeatedly. The recording was made live in Basel, and Schiff himself selected several takes from different dates, resulting in a realistic and humanistic music, free from the errors that are common in live recordings, and in the best possible condition, just like a studio recording. As Schiff himself admits, the sound quality has been improved over the old recording, and the piano sound is recorded more vividly. While the improvisational ornaments, which are a prominent feature of Schiff's Bach performances under Malcolm, are inserted here and there in this disc, the Goltberg Variations are presented as pure piano music, without the harpsichord-like effect of raising the octave as in the 7th and 19th variations on the old recording. The Golteberg Variations are presented as pure piano music.It is a performance that is much more mature than the one given 20 years ago, the fruit of Schiff's high awareness of the issues involved, and the work is filled with new life. A pianist is not a servant of the composer, but a re-creator, a second composer, if you will.

Tracklisting:

1.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Aria
2.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 1: a 1 Clav.
3.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 2: a 1 Clav.
4.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 3: Canone all'Unison
5.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 4: a 1 Clav.
6.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 5: a 1 o vero 2 Clav
7.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 6: Canone alla Secon
8.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 7: a 1 o vero 2 Clav
9.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 8: a 2 Clav.
10.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 9: Canone alla Terza
11.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 10: Fugetta. a 1 Cla
12.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 11: a 2 Clav.
13.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 12: Canone alla Quar
14.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 13: a 2 Clav.
15.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 14: a 2 Clav.
16.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 15: Canone alla Quin
17.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 16: Ouverture a 1 Cl
18.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 17: a 2 Clav.
19.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 18: Canone alla Sext
20.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 19: a 1 Clav.
21.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 20: a 2 Clav.
22.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 21: Canone alla Sett
23.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 22: a 1 Clav. Alla b
24.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 23: a 2 Clav.
25.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 24: Canone all'Ottav
26.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 25: a 2 Clav. Adagio
27.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 26: a 2 Clav.
28.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 27: Canone alla Nona
29.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 28: a 2 Clav.
30.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 29: a 1 o vero 2 Cla
31.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 30: Quodlibet. a 1 C
32.Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ubung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Aria