Bach: Goldberg Variations
List Price:
Our Price: $10.97
You Save: $7.01 (39%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $8.08 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
CD Details
Composer: J.S. BachPerformer: Simone Dinnerstein
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-08-28
Music Label: Telarc
Soundtracks:
- Aria
- Variation 1
- Variation 2
- Variation 3 - Canone all'Unisono
- Variation 4
- Variation 5
- Variation 6 - Canone alla Seconda
- Variation 7
- Variation 8
- Variation 9 - Canone alla Terza
- Variation 10 - Fughetta
- Variation 11
- Variation 12 - Canone alla Quarta
- Variation 13
- Variation 14
- Variation 15
- Variation 16 - Canone alla Quinta
- Variation 17
- Variation 18 - Canone alla Sesta
- Variation 19
- Variation 20
- Variation 21 - Canone alla Settima
- Variation 22
- Variation 23
- Variation 24 - Canone all'Ottava
- Variation 25
- Variation 26
- Variation 27 - Canone alla Nona
- Variation 28
- Variation 29
- Variation 30 - Quodilbet
- Aria
Music reviews of Bach: Goldberg Variations
Music Review: listen to the audio samples before buying
Rating: 2 Stars
The incessant rhythmic liberties just spoil the interpretation for me. If you know the piece and the samples don't bother you, go ahead and buy it, but don't make it your first version.
Description of Bach: Goldberg Variations
Dinnerstein's Goldberg Variations was recorded in the neoclassic auditorium of the Academy of Arts and Letters in New York in March 2005. The piano she plays, a 1903 Hamburg Steinway model D concert grand, was originally owned by the town council of Hull, in Northeast England. During World War II, Hull was extensively bombed and the town hall in which the piano was housed was severely damaged. The piano, however, survived intact and was used in a series of concerts after the war to restore Hull's spirit. In 2002, it was restored by Klavierhaus in New York City, in time to be used at the re-opening of the World Trade Center's Winter Garden, playing the same role as it had in Hull over fifty years earlier.This is destined to be one of the best-remembered and significant classical releases of 2007. Simone (pronounced "See-mo-nuh") Dinnerstein has recently been attracting lots of media attention, from Oprah's magazine to The New York Times. Within a classical-music circuit increasingly unwilling to take artistic risks, hers has been the rare success story. The 30-something pianist (a former student of Peter Serkin), backing herself, wowed critics with some notable concerts and eventually secured the support of a major label to release a self-produced recording Dinnerstein had made in March 2005. This Telarc account of the Goldberg Variations thus marks her solo debut CD (following some earlier collaborations with cellist Zuill Bailey on the Delos label). For once, the publicity is trying to keep up with the musical achievement--rather than the other way around.
Dinnerstein's seriousness of purpose is immediately obvious from her choice of the Bach masterpiece to make her mark. With the specter of Glenn Gould's own epoch-making 1955 debut playing the same work-not to mention a vast catalog of competing interpretations-Dinnerstein is nothing if not bold. But what's really extraordinary here is the liberating sense she conveys of its not having all been said before-without resorting to tiresome idiosyncrasies to stand apart from the crowd. Her remarkably deliberate way with the opening aria is unusual, to be sure. But it establishes the stakes for what will follow, where Dinnerstein's thoughtfulness and spectacular clarity seem to discover new facets at every turn. Her pianism embraces a prismatic array of touches, whether the feathery lightness of Variation 5, the burbling rhythms of Variation 14, or the tragic weight of the "black pearl" Variation 25. The cumulative effect is exhilarating, intensely moving, and an affirmation of the Goldbergs' infinite variety. --Thomas May
Bach, Johann Sebastian CDs
Music Genres
Bestsellers in Bach, Johann Sebastian CDs
25 Bach FavoritesRelease date: 1996-08-20; Music CD
Best price: $2.02
Price in other shops:
The Most Relaxing Piano Album in the World...Ever!Release date: 2001-03-27; Music CD
Best price: $13.30
Price in other shops:
Beethoven's Wig - Beethoven's Wig: Sing Along SymphoniesRounder Kids; Release date: 2002-03-05; Music CD
Best price: $7.87
Price in other shops:
The Most Relaxing Classical Album in the World...Ever!Release date: 1999-03-30; Music CD
Best price: $12.35
Price in other shops:
UltraSound - Music for the Unborn ChildRelease date: 1999-04-13; Music CD
Best price: $5.28
Price in other shops:
The Essential Yo-Yo MaRelease date: 2005-08-16; Music CD
Best price: $10.09
Price in other shops:
25 Classical FavoritesRelease date: 1996-01-23; Music CD
Best price: $2.00
Price in other shops:
The Most Soothing Lullabies In The UniverseRelease date: 2004-04-06; Music CD
Best price: $8.62
Price in other shops:
The Most Relaxing Classical Music in the UniverseRelease date: 2003-04-08; Music CD
Best price: $6.88
Price in other shops:
Similar CDs
War and Peace (Vintage Classics)by Leo Tolstoy
Vintage; Published: 2008-12-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $11.86
Price in other shops:
Haydn: Piano SonatasRelease date: 2007-04-10; Music CD
Best price: $14.86
Price in other shops:
Bach: Art of FugueRelease date: 2008-03-11; Music CD
Best price: $9.59
Price in other shops:
Beethoven Sonatas, Opp. 101 & 106 "Hammerklavier"Release date: 2007-08-14; Music CD
Best price: $8.41
Price in other shops:
Osvaldo Golijov: OceanaRelease date: 2007-07-10; Music CD
Best price: $9.88
Price in other shops:
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Editionby Oliver Sacks
Vintage; Published: 2008-09-23; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.53
Price in other shops:
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Centuryby Alex Ross
Picador; Published: 2008-10-14; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.94
Price in other shops:
A State of Wonder: The Complete Goldberg Variations (1955 & 1981)Release date: 2002-09-03; Music CD
Best price: $9.90
Price in other shops:
The Berlin ConcertRelease date: 2008-08-26; Music CD
Best price: $9.60
Price in other shops:
Cello & Piano Sonatas Volume 1Release date: 2006-10-31; Music CD
Best price: $9.26
Price in other shops: