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, ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations, which Olafsson recorded for Deutsche Grammophon and is touring this season, is “like a life cycle.” By David Allen ...
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 ...
In the early 1720s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a set of Two-Part Inventions to help his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, learn to play the keyboard. Now, 300 years later, jazz pianist and ...
The opening Aria is on the slow side (dragging? Never!), but the first five variations sprint from the starting gate, buoyed by perky left-hand accents. If Var 5 doesn’t quite sustain its opening pace ...