J.S. Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” begins with a song, an aria, which is wistful, haunting, beyond beautiful. It’s all right there in the notes. Yet the pianist Simone Dinnerstein does something very ...

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 ...

Pianists are measured against one another by how they handle benchmark compositions. For instance, with their rigor and accessibility, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations helped bestow master ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — When Johann Sebastian Bach had his “Keyboard exercise, consisting of an ARIA with diverse variations for harpsichord with two manuals” published by Balthasar Schmid in Nuremberg in ...

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, ...

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.

With a backdrop of stacked lumber at the Steinway Factory in New York, Teicher's stage is a nothing more than a pair of wooden pallets. In Bach's opening "Aria," Teicher taps lightly. After all, the ...

An early biography of composer J.S. Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forke tells the story of how the famous variations known as Goldberg Variations came to be. Bach received a commission from Count Hermann ...

BERLIN — Experts have discovered a previously unknown work by Johann Sebastian Bach in documents taken from a German library shortly before it was damaged by fire, researchers said yesterday. It was ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by For 20 years, the superstar pianist resisted playing this towering work in public. Now he’s releasing not one recording of it, but two. By Joshua ...