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title: "Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - piano - (HN 159)"
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# Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - piano - (HN 159)

**Brand:** johann sebastian bach
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- **What is this?** Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - piano - (HN 159) by johann sebastian bach
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Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - piano - (HN 159)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Excellent publication
  

*by B***. on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2024*

Very good publication

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Music as therapy
  

*by S***T on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 February 2015*

In the concluding part of her detailed and insightful narrative in the liner note accompanying the disc, Angela Hewitt writes: 'We might ask ourselves why this work has such an enormous effect on us, as I believe it does.  It is certainly one of the most therapeutic pieces of music in that we always feel better for having listened to it.  The beauty, joy and fulfillment that Bach shares with us are powerful healers, and give us momentarily the sense of completeness we seek.' After listening to her exemplary rendition, I can attest to the healing power of this piece of music which served as an inspiration for my subject heading.Bach described the Goldberg Variations, merely as a keyboard 'practice-piece', composed for his talented student Gottlieb Goldberg to play on the harpsichord.  But in the hands of a genius resulted in a masterpiece which requires daunting virtuoso skills to handle its extraordinary musical, technical and intellectual difficulties.The theme is a sublime aria symmetrically devised in two halves of sixteen bars each with beguiling melody anchored on the bass line.  This ground bass is like that of a passacaglia or a chaconne, it serves as the backbone of the construction.  There are thirty variations, after which the Aria returns in its initial shape, thus uniting the beginning with the end.  The thirty variations are divided into ten groups of three.  Each group contains a brilliant virtuoso toccata-like piece, a gentle and elegant character piece and a strictly polyphonic canon.  The canons are presented in a sequence of increasing intervals starting with the canon in unison up until the canon in ninths.  In place of the canon in tenths, we have a quodlibet (what pleases) which combines fragments of two folk songs with the ground bass.The characteristics of her exemplary rendition comprise lightness of touch, deeply felt musicianship, dexterity, and dazzling independent finger work while the drama  in Bach's music is profoundly palpable.  Murray Perahia's rendition is of a similar exemplary quality.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Historic recording
  

*by M***L on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 January 2020*

Sounds simply wonderful. I have moved on from the Much loved Glenn Gould Recordings and this rendition is now my favourite. CD arrived promptly and in great condition.

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