An early biography of composer J.S. Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forke tells the story of how the famous variations known as Goldberg Variations came to be. Bach received a commission from Count Hermann ...

Chinese pianist Lang Lang went from being just one more fresh-faced and precocious teenaged phenomenon twenty years ago with his debut recording on Telarc, Lang Lang (2001), featuring the heady ...

Pianist Yunchan Lim is on fire. Just 20 years old and still in studies at the New England Conservatory, he is the youngest-ever winner of the gold medal at the prestigious Van Cliburn Competition.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — When Johann Sebastian Bach had his “Keyboard exercise, consisting of an ARIA with diverse variations for harpsichord with two manuals” published by Balthasar Schmid in Nuremberg in ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations, which Olafsson recorded for Deutsche Grammophon and is touring this season, is “like a life cycle.” By David Allen ...

The work has a unique aura surrounding it, partly due to its immortalisation on screen, in books, and through certain seminal recordings. Perhaps like no other piece by Bach, the Goldbergs have ...

Northampton, MA – The Smith College Department of Music presents a special concert of Bach’s Goldberg Variations by pianist Monica Jakuc Leverett in celebration of her 80 th birthday on Sunday, ...

Review: Iceland’s Víkingur Ólafsson’s performance of Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations’ is captivating The famed pianist performed at St. Paul’s Ordway Concert Hall as part of the Schubert Club ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The harpsichordist Jean Rondeau played the “Goldberg” Variations at Weill Recital Hall with patience and a vibrant yet subtle touch. By ...

When pianist Simone Dinnerstein learned she was expecting her first child, she dedicated herself to learning Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Her self-funded recording of them received ...

Later in the hour, conductor Bernard Labadie leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in selections from Handel's Messiah. For now, we hear him with Les Violons du Roy in two variations from Bach's Goldberg ...