The Philharmonic Society of Orange County will present the Orange County debut of Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson as he performs J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations at Renée and Henry Segerstrom ...

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 ...

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 ...

ASPEN ” For 16 years, from the time she was 13 till she was 29, Simone Dinnerstein admired from a certain distance the Goldberg Variations, J.S. Bach’s monumental, late-in-life piano work. As a ...

Chinese pianist Lang Lang may have been playing J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations for close to three decades, but it was only this year that he felt confident enough to make a recording of the work – ...

Pianist Yunchan Lim is on fire. Just 20 years old and still in studies at the New England Conservatory, he is the youngest-ever winner of the gold medal at the prestigious Van Cliburn Competition.

Northampton, MA – The Smith College Department of Music presents a special concert of Bach’s Goldberg Variations by pianist Monica Jakuc Leverett in celebration of her 80 th birthday on Sunday, ...

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 ...

This is the debut CD of British pianist Nick Van Bloss who, in 1994 aged 26, stopped playing for 15 years. He had just participated in a televised recital at Poland's Chopin festival, which gives an ...

Bach's towering keyboard masterpiece, by turns obsessive and joyous, is one of the most notoriously difficult pieces to grapple with. So why do pianists keep feeling its lure? I stopped watching ...

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's Westside Chamber Series features a musical twist with Bach's Goldberg Variations for String Orchestra, led by Concertmaster Margaret Batjer, on Saturday, March 12, 2022 ...

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 ...