Bach: Goldberg Variations

Andreas Staier - Bach: Goldberg Variations

Bach: Goldberg Variations
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Artist: Andreas Staier
Composer: Bach
Conductor: none
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2010-03-09
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi
Soundtracks:
  1. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Aria
  2. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 1. a 1 Clav.
  3. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 2. a 1 Clav.
  4. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 3. Canone all' Unisuono. a 1 Clav.
  5. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 4. a 1 Clav.
  6. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 5. a 1 0 vero 2 Clav.
  7. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 6. Canone alla Seconda. a 1 Clav.
  8. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 7. a 1 0 vero 2 Clav. al tempo di Giga
  9. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 8. a 2 Clav.
  10. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 9. Canone alla Terza. a 1 Clav.
  11. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 10. Fugetta. a 1 Clav.
  12. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 11. a 2 Clav.
  13. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 12. Canone alla Quarta. a 1 Clav.
  14. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 13. a 2 Clav.
  15. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 14. a 2 Clav.
  16. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 15. Canone alla Quinta. a 1 Clav. Andante
  17. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 16. Ouverture. a 1 Clav.
  18. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 17. a 2 Clav.
  19. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 18. Canone alla Sexta. a 1 Clav.
  20. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 19. a 1 Clav.
  21. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 20. a 2 Clav.
  22. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 21. Canone alla Settima. a 1 Clav.
  23. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 22. a 1 Clav. alla breve
  24. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 23. a 2 Clav.
  25. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 24. Canone all' Ottava. a 1 Clav.
  26. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 25. a 2 Clav. Adagio
  27. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 26. a 2 Clav.
  28. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 27. Canone alla Nona. a 2 Clav.
  29. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 28. a 2 Clav.
  30. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 29. a 1 0 vero a 2 Clav.
  31. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variatio 30. Quodlibet. a 1 Clav.
  32. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-Ã?bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Aria da Capo e Fine

Music reviews of Bach: Goldberg Variations

Music Review: At last, Staier's Goldberg Variations!
Rating: 5 Stars

I, too, have eagerly awaited this recording. I discovered Staier a few years ago, and have become an enthusiastic collector of his recordings. I especially admire his historical knowledge of performance practice, and his belief that instrumental color is an integral part of the music, so that from Bach and Scarlatti through Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms, he chooses keyboard instruments that convey the sonority of the period. In this case he plays the Goldbergs on a modern copy of a 1734 harpsichord by the Hamburg maker Albrecht Hass, which he has used in two previous recordings.

Unlike the previous two reviewers I find this a stunning performance and recording (the ninth I own of the piece, six on piano and three on harpsichord, including the one by Rousset mentioned by a previous reviewer). I emphatically do not share his negative opinion of the recording or of the performance. Perhaps it is a matter of one's sound equipment, but, while the CD is indeed closely miked, I find this one of the most gorgeous-sounding harpsichord recordings I have ever heard. For me over an hour of harpsichord music can sometimes become unpleasantly clangorous, monotonous, and fatiguing, but not in this case, not with the wonderful variety of colors Staier draws from this instrument (just as he does in his fortepiano recordings, making his Haydn and Mozart performances so delightful and revelatory). This is a recording that has both presence and atmosphere; this harpsichord SOUNDS like a palpable three-dimensional object in space--and I am listening through only two speakers.

Using a second CD player, I compared a number of tracks by Rousset and Staier back to back, and consistently preferred Staier. Next to the color of his playing Rousset, admirable in so many respects, sounds rather monochromatic to me. I have been listening to various versions of the Goldbergs for fifty years, yet Staier's interpretation rekindled by initial awe for this miracle of musical art. A wonderful recording!

The CD also comes with a DVD, in which Staier, always an intelligent commentator on the music he plays, discusses the Goldberg variations and demonstrates his points on the harpsichord.
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Description of Bach: Goldberg Variations

Andreas Staier waited nearly a quarter of a century before playing the Goldberg Variations in public. His long-awaited first performance was in Montreal at the end of April 2000, and this new set for harmonia mundi is his first recording of Bach s keyboard masterpiece. Undoubtedly one of the most prominent harpsichord and fortepiano performers in the world, Staier embarked upon a solo career in 1986 after leaving the acclaimed ensemble Musica Antiqua Köln. Since then, his indisputable musical mastery as a soloist has made its mark on the interpretation of baroque, classical and romantic repertoire. His extensive discography has garnered top critical awards from the international press. Staier says of the Goldbergs, Bach used the possibilities offered by the instrument s double keyboard. The work is totally suited to the harpsichord, whereas trying to play it on the piano is like attempting to square the circle.

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