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 ...

Pianists are measured against one another by how they handle benchmark compositions. For instance, with their rigor and accessibility, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations helped bestow master ...

In the “Goldberg Variations,” one of his most justly famous works for keyboard, Bach took a simple melody and subjected it to a comprehensive series of treatments. Is that really so different from ...

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 ...

Promising to give it “the full monty,” British harpsichord maestro Richard Egarr, making his first solo tour of the United States, will perform J.S. Bach’s masterwork, the “Goldberg Variations,” as ...

Owing to its Himalayan presence, Bach’s set of 30 keyboard variations is a daunting prospect for any recording artist. Lindsay Kemp speaks to Lang Lang – whose first recording of the work has just ...

Legend has it that Bach's Goldberg Variations were written as lullabies, performed by Johann Gottlieb Goldberg to aid the troubled sleep of Count Kaiserling. While the tale of Goldberg and Count ...

Although most music is in a constant state of change, Spanish pianist Isidro Barrio will create a bigger stir than most when he presents his variation of the "Goldberg Variations" in Tokyo on Feb. 17.

Appreciation of the harpsichord has come a long way since Thomas Beecham described the piano’s keyboard predecessor as sounding ‘like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof’. Each of the ...

Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations has become an iconic monument in Western music. On one level, it's simply a beautiful keyboard work, and on another, it's a Rubik's Cube of invention and ...

Count Keyserlingk, the insomniac Russian ambassador to the Kingdom of Saxony for whom Johann Sebastian Bach may have written the Goldberg Variations, supposedly rewarded the composer with a golden ...