Bach, J S: Goldberg Variations, BWV988

"The playing is indeed exceptional ... the sound is splendid, with an ideal balance of warmth and clarity ... the performance offers more with, fantasy and sheer fun than any I've heard ..." Gramophone

“This was the recording which persuaded George Malcolm that the two-keyboard Goldbergs were viable on the one-keyboard piano. Schiff spotlights detail in a way denied to the harpsichordist. Rewarding.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2006 ****

"This performance causes me to wonder whether Forkel, in his much-quoted report, got hold of the wrong end of the stick and that the Goldberg Variations were used by Count Kayserling not as an antidote for his insomnia but so as to have something worth staying awake for. Pinnock's reading is certainly the liveliest there has been of this great work [...] this recording - which on CD captures every sound (musical and otherwise) of the Ruckers instrument with the utmost fidelity - is pure pleasure." Lionel Salter, The Gramophone, August 1985 (Goldberg Variations)

“The nobility of her concept of [the Goldberg Variations] is affecting, as is the supple strength of her playing. Many more recent interpretations leave a fainter print on the memory than this vibrant recording, full of poetry and personal sentiment.” Gramophone