Release Date: 03 November 2023
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 6417513105209
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: Johann Sebastian Bach
Description
An hour and a half of ornate French overtures, insightful canons, expressive arias and playful virtuoso numbers -- and then a return to the beginning of everything, to a simple aria: in moments like these, I feel greatness and smallness, togetherness and separateness, in a way the philosopher John Dewey calls consummatory experience. At the end of the Goldberg Variations, the repetition of the Aria closes the circle of the narrated story and sanctifies the harmonic foundation of the work, the law of nature on which this most extensive keyboard work of the Baroque period rests. At that time, in addition to the refining experience, something else occurs as well: a desire to continue, to recollect what has been experienced, and to live under the influence of these safe laws of nature for one moment longer. In the silence of the end, the polonetic-like rhythm of the first variation creeps into my mind - and I can't stop playing. - Hannu Alasaarela
Terhi Dostal
Lauri Sallinen; Anna Kuvaja
Jukka Harju
4th Line Horn Quartet
Zagros
Ylonen/Satukangas
Vuola/Cantus Mercuria
Vierashuone Ensemble
Raaf Hekkema
Zlata Chochieva
Tyler Hay
Tomoko Mayeda
Stephen Farr (organ)
Sophia Weidemann; Tinka Kleffner
Sofja Gulbadamova
Sofia Andreoli
