Goldberg Variations - Jean Rondeau - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

Bach Goldberg Variations is an album by Jean Rondeau, released in 2022. The album is a Digipak classical 2-CD.

Jean Rondeau has described Bach’s Goldberg Variations as “an ode to silence … I feel they were written for silence, in the sense that they take the place of silence.” Famously, Bach is said to have written the variations to be played at night, by the harpsichordist Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, as comfort for the insomniac Russian ambassador to Dresden.

“All Bach is there in the Goldberg Variations,” continues Rondeau, “All music is there ... and I will no doubt spend my life working on them.” To prepare his interpretation he consulted an original printed edition of the work, containing Bach’s own markings and corrections. “Through delving into this precious musicological source, I was able to make what I felt to be the most authentic choices.”

Rondeau performs the set of variations in its complete form, with the indicated repeats and, appropriately, moments of judiciously inserted silence.

Label: Plg Uk Catalog | Origin: Holland

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