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 ...

The Icelandic pianist Vikingur Ólafsson is one of the world’s most engrossing live performers of classical piano music right ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Are McDonald’s french fries a musical instrument? Are guitar strings protein-packed? Do colors make sound? Is I-26 part of ...

Blassel’s is an exquisite reading: the Aria is played almost with a surfeit of warmth and delicacy, as if to impress the potential of its material upon the listener from the outset so as to allow a ...

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 ...

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