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The Goldberg Variations BWV 988
Aria
Variation 1
Variation 2
Variation 3
Variation 4
Variation 5
Variation 6
Variation 7
Variation 8
Variation 9
Variation 10
Variation 11
Variation 12
Variation 13
Variation 14
Variation 15
Variation 16
Variation 17
Variation 18
Variation 19
Variation 20
Variation 21
Variation 22
Variation 23
Variation 24
Variation 25
Variation 26
Variation 27
Variation 28
Variation 29
Variation 30
Aria (Reprise)

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Recorded on the Kleuker organ of Notre-Dame des Neiges, Alpe d'Huez, France.
Total Time: 53:56

"Clavier-Übung (keyboard exercise) consisting of an Aria with diverse variations for 2-manual harpsichord, dedicated to music-lovers to gladden their hearts, by J.S. Bach, composer to the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, Kapellmeister and Civic Director of Music for Leipzig. Edited by Balthasar Schmid at Nuremberg." So runs the very modest title for a piece of harpsichord literature that can be described only as a work of towering complexity and of the most profound expressive grandeur. Its richness derives on the one hand from its great number of rhythmic figures (only, perhaps with Stravinsky does such profusion again occur), and on the other hand from a composing style that makes use of almost all the possible canonic intervals and inversions.

credits

Composed By – Johann Sebastian Bach
Organ – Jean Guillou
Transcription By – Jean Guillou

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Dorian Recordings
Copyright (c) – Dorian Recordings
Recorded At – Notre-Dame Des Neiges, L'Alpe D'Huez

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