St. Mary’s Chapel was filled to capacity by the time Peter Watchorn sat down to play Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Music students, faculty, and fans alike packed every pew, with ...

Professional percussionists Katalin La Favre and Brian Calhoon have created an innovative way to perform Bach’s “Goldberg Variations.” They’re using two vibraphones, a refurbished antique glockenspiel ...

Virtuoso pianist Lang Lang has conquered many musical mountains, but now he takes on what he considers his Mount Everest: Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Unable to perform for live audiences during the ...

, Atlanta, 2009. Concert grand double manual; range, FF-g'''. Hand painted oil lid. Purchased 2011. Performed by Trevor Pinnock, Academy of Ancient Music, The Red Priest. Gilmson, whose four-day ...

Hearing Bach’s Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord instead of the piano somehow bears a stamp of authenticity, rather like reading Flaubert in the original French. As wonderfully expressive as the ...

Professor Christoph Wolff, today's top Bach answer man, helps kick off a week of Goldberg explorations. Bach's Enduring Enigma: An Introduction To The 'Goldberg Variations' All week, we're exploring ...

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 ...

It’s been said that Bach’s Goldberg Variations put Glenn Gould on the map. In 1955, this Canadian pianist, 22 years old and all but unknown, chose the piece for his debut recording, and the sheer ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” has taken on an iconic place in today’s music world ever since Canadian pianist Glenn Gould’s blockbuster recording of the work in 1956. At least one ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jane Levere is a New York-based freelance writer covering the arts. The celebrated pianist Lang Lang has realized a lifelong dream ...

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 ...