Last year a campaign was designed to raise funds for a unique experiment: Create a completely free to the public, new score and recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations. The plan was ...

Only a musician of intrepid character attempts Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations. One of the summits of the keyboard repertoire, this sublime collection of theme and 30 variations teems with ...

In 1955, a young man from Canada stood the classical music world on its ear. Glenn Gould’s recording of Bach harpsichord music on a modern piano was one of the most significant musical events of the ...

The sheet music the pianist used for his iconic 1981 recording of the Goldberg Variations is expected to fetch between $100,000 and $150,000 In 1981, just a year before he died, the great Canadian ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A project to make available a public domain score and studio recording of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations for free online has finally seen fruition. Raising $15000 (£9500) via Kickstarter – a funding ...

Legend has it that Johann Sebastian Bach composed the Baroque masterpiece known as the "Goldberg Variations" for an insomniac ambassador to be played on sleepless nights by the diplomat’s teenage ...