The Philharmonic Society of Orange County will present the Orange County debut of Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson as he performs J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations at Renée and Henry Segerstrom ...
ASPEN ” For 16 years, from the time she was 13 till she was 29, Simone Dinnerstein admired from a certain distance the Goldberg Variations, J.S. Bach’s monumental, late-in-life piano work. As a ...
Chinese pianist Lang Lang may have been playing J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations for close to three decades, but it was only this year that he felt confident enough to make a recording of the work – ...
Owen Mortimer in conversation with Burkard Schliessmann about his interpretation of Bach’s ‘Goldberg’ Variations, BWV 988, released on Divine Art You've written that Bach's Goldberg Variations combine ...
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.
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, ...
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 ...
Hearing Bach’s Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord instead of the piano somehow bears a stamp of authenticity, rather like reading Flaubert in the original French. As wonderfully expressive as the ...
“And then I just thought, why not put the two together?” This casual account of decision making, an explanation without an explanation, was offered by pianist András Schiff during a recent ...
Owing to its Himalayan presence, Bach’s set of 30 keyboard variations is a daunting prospect for any recording artist. Lindsay Kemp speaks to Lang Lang – whose first recording of the work has just ...
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 ...