Episode 886. The second of our podcasts entitled Bach & Co. Bach & Co is a kind of sound supplement in podcast style, a magazine with the new Bach week, in which musical pieces and performances played in the broadcasts can be examined further. This episode and Bach week are centred round the Goldberg variations.
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Tune: From Sonata No.4 in C minor: Siciliano Largo
Janine Jansen, violin. Jan Jansen, harpsichord
1. Goldberg Variations
– Aria (2x)
Andreas Staier, harpsichord
Glenn Gould, piano
2. Fragments of Aria and first variations
Performing musicians: Mahan Esfahani, Colin Booth, Pieter Jan Belder, Pascal Dubreuil, Alexandre Tharaud, Ivo Janssen, Jeremy Denk, Beatrice Rana, Ramin Bahrami & Danilo Rea, Carsten Dahl, Trio Echnaton, Accademia Amsterdam & PaDam, Seldome Sene, Vincent van Amsterdam
3. From Goldberg Variations BWV 988:
– Aria
– Variatio 1. a 1 Clav.
– Variatio 2. a 1 Clav.
– Variatio 3. Canone all’Unisono. a 1 Clav.
Lang Lang, piano
(CD Goldberg Variations [Nomination])
4. From Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (arrangement for small orchestra by Józef Koffler)
– Variation 25
– Variation 26
Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble conducted by Trevor Pinnock and guest musicians from the Glenn Gould School
Picture at the top: Lang Lang at the graveside of Johann Sebastian Bach in the St Thomas Church, Leipzig
