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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Bach, J S: Goldberg Variations, BWV988
Simone Dinnerstein (piano) “This recording contains some of the most beautiful, sensitive, intelligent and manifestly sincere playing you're ever likely to hear.” Piano | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bach - Goldberg Variations
Bach, J S: | Goldberg Variations, BWV988 Recorded 10th and 14th-16th June, 1955 in the Columbia 30th Street Studios, New York City Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV829 Recorded 4th October, 1954 in the CBC Studios, Montreal. |
When the recording was released the American Record Guide headed its review with “The Record Début of Glenn Gould, a Keyboard Genius.” “A 1950s benchmark and a record that forever altered the way we hear Bach's Goldberg Variations, Glenn Gould's 1955 CBS recording, elegant and exuberant, a fast-lane excursion that occasionally pauses for thought… Naxos's excellent transfer is coupled with a confident Bach G major Partita.” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bach, J S: Goldberg Variations, BWV988(arranged by Dmitri Sitkovetsky)
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"an interpretation to be treasured...." (Gramophone) “…a grandiose performance - all repeats observed; not bombastic or posturing but eager (in Egarr's words) 'to let this music sing and to keep the music free from rigidity and haste'. Most impressive is the way Egarr conveys the sensation of an edifice being re-created through the building blocks of interconnecting tissue.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2006 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“Naxos' so-called "house pianist" Jeno Jandó is on top form in Bach's Goldberg Variations.” Classics Today | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bach, J S: Goldberg Variations, BWV988(1955 recording)
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| |  | Bach, J S: Goldberg Variations, BWV988
This is very special. All of Angela Hewitt's Bach recordings to date have been made in Germany on her favourite piano and with her chosen producer, Ludger Böckenhoff. For this recording of the Goldbergs, a work for which she has especial reverence, Angela inspected several venues in Britain. Accordingly she and Ludger, the piano and piano technician Gerd Finkenstein, travelled from Germany to London's Henry Wood Hall where no fewer than five days were allocated to record the work. Finally satisfied artistically, Angela finished the recording at the end of the fifth day, after which she went home for a bath and something to eat. Everybody then went back to HWH in the middle of the night and recorded the whole thing again, without a break. After a few final adjustments in the editing room, that is the performance which appears on this disc. All repeats are observed. “Name your leading interpretative preferences in the Goldberg Variations, and there's bound to be someone on disc who expresses them.
Leaving aside numerous harpsichord versions, the current catalogue is notably rich in colourful piano alternatives. Two things strike you about Hewitt's Goldbergs from the start: first, that she can summon many dynamic grades simultaneously; and second, that her variations between repeats aren't restricted to matters of voicing.
For example, in Variation 13, she accelerates her phrases as if caught on a spontaneous impulse, then relaxes for the response. When she plays the variation's first half again she significantly modifies her tone and rubato, then opts for a more formal approach to the second half. All this in just over four and a half minutes! Her mastery of the keyboard is exemplary.
She can launch an elegant staccato or allow one voice to weave an ivy-like thread, while others argue above it. Beyond a seamless account of the pivotal Variation 25, Hewitt rattles off manic trills in Var 23 and favours a grand, free-wheeling approach for Var 29. This disc is strongly recommended.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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