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 ...

The Canadian pianist’s legacy is closely tied to his recordings of one of the great composer’s most complex and ambitious works. In 1955, an unknown, young Canadian pianist arrived at a recording ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Parker Ramsay thinks so. He has arranged the “Goldberg” Variations, a keyboard classic, for the modern pedal harp. By Parker Ramsay I suppose I have ...

With a backdrop of stacked lumber at the Steinway Factory in New York, Teicher's stage is a nothing more than a pair of wooden pallets. In Bach's opening "Aria," Teicher taps lightly. After all, the ...

In January 1956, Canadian pianist Glenn Gould made a sensational record debut with J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations. Its sales ...

More than 20 years have passed since the Chinese pianist Lang Lang came to international attention at age 17 during the Ravinia Festival in Illinois. Sporting a big virtuoso technique, an extroverted ...

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 ...

ACCORDING TO LEGEND, they were written as lullabies to send an insomniac Russian diplomat to sleep. Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, loved them, and played them as his life neared its end. In ...

Bach Goldberg VariationsLater 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 ...