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Johann Sebastian Bach, Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Aria

Variation 1

Variation 2

Variation 3 – Canone all'unisuono

Variation 4

Variation 5

Variation 6 – Canone alla seconda

Variation 7 – Al tempo di giga

Variation 8

Variation 9 – Canone alla terza

Variation 10 – Fughetta

Variation 11

Variation 12 – Canone alla quarta

Variation 13

Variation 14

Variation 15 – Canone alla quinta : Andante

Variation 16 – Overture

Variation 17

Variation 18 – Canone alla sesta

Variation 19

Variation 20

Variation 21 – Canone alla settima

Variation 22 – Alla breve

Variation 23

Variation 24 – Canone all'ottava

Variation 25 – Adagio

Variation 26

Variation 27 – Canone alla none

Variation 28

Variation 29

Variation 30 – Quodlibet

Aria da capo

Sir András Schiff plays Bach's Goldberg Variations

A Baroque masterpiece performed by a legendary Bach interpreter

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In 1990, producer Janos Darvas recorded this recital of the Goldberg Variations performed by the legendary pianist Sir András Schiff. Three decades later, Bach’s music has never left Schiff who practices the composer’s fugues for at least an hour a day. For him “there is a great liberty in performing in Bach’s music, a lot more than with other composers”.

In 1741 the Goldberg Variations were published for “amateurs and the practice of spirituality”, but they are above all a testament to the art of fugue. According to musicologist Patrick Szersnovicz “they are a large, playful collection, of rare contrapuntal density”.

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