Jerome Robbins’s “The Goldberg Variations” is well over an hour long, and time doesn’t fly while you watch it. But while it is repetitive and overworked, it is also very rewarding. Sunday afternoon, ...

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 ...

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 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) will present pianist Angela Hewitt in a 50th anniversary performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations on Friday, October 24, 2025 at 7:30pm. In-person tickets start at ...

Lim describes the Goldberg Variations as “a journey of life in music — from the first opening of our eyes in the Aria, through thirty deeply human variations, to the final Aria, when our eyes gently ...

Goldberg Variations Nick van Bloss, Piano Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer For the most part, however, van Bloss goes his own way and beckons your attention in the process. He follows no consistent ...

During the late 1970s, Glenn Gould and filmmaker and musician Bruno Monsaingeon planned an extensive series of television films on the music of Bach. Broadcast between 1979 and 1981, the three films ...

For the first, muted-silver hour, it was hard to say, given the difficulty of interpreting much in the dancer’s vocabulary and tallying it with what we were hearing in Kolesnikov’s myriad worlds. The ...

Variation 22 unconventionally proceeds along the same lines as the ruminative, romantically lit variation that precedes it (Var 21, the canon at the seventh). Like Angela Hewitt (Hyperion, 4/00), ...