Holloway: Gilded Goldbergs

Tracklisting

Disc 1

Side 1

• 1. Aria: G major
• 2. Variation 1: expanding the theme: G
• 3. Variation 2: simple tonal cubism: G-D
• 4. Variation 3: canon at the unison: G
• 5. Variation 4: simply through some keys: G-G
• 6. Variation 5: vivace a la Scarlatti: C
• 7. Variation 6: canon at the second: C-A flat
• 8. Variation 7: gigue in antiphony: A flat/C
• 9. Variation 8: enhanced replay of Variation 1: G
• 10. Variation 9: canon at the third: homeage to Grainger: E flat
• 11. Variation 10: 'robust and a bit gormless' (wrong-note music): B
• 12. Variation 11: dreaming: homeage to Schubert and Brahms: G
• 13. Variation 12: canon at the fourth: E
• 14. Variation 13: Cantilena 1: double variation with homeage to Dowland: G/E flat minor
• 15. Variation 14: energico: A flat minor
• 16. Variation 15: canon at the fifth: G minor

Disc 2

• 1. Variation 16: French Overture and homeage to Nancarrow: G sharp minor
• 2. Variation 17: Hungarian cymbalom: homeage to Bartok, Ligeti, Kurtag: E minor doina - homage to Enesc
• 3. Variation 18: canon in sixths: D flat
• 4. Variation 19: Landler and trio (brief history of Austro-German music in triple time): B flat
• 5. Variation 20: vivace con brio: D
• 6. Variation 21: canon at the seventh: G minor
• 7. Variation 22: churchy counterpoint in aniphony: A flat
• 8. Variation 23: diatonic scrunches (homeage to Tippett): F
• 9. Variation 24: canon at the octave: complex journey through some keys: G/G minor-B flat
• 10. Variation 25: Cantilena 2: G minor
• 11. Variation 26a: Sarabande: G
• 12. Variation 27: 'Trio' - canon at the ninth: F
• 13. Variation 26b: Sarabande resumed: A major/A minor Ruckblick - homage to Schumann
• 14. Variation 28: 'Summer afternoon' - hazy trills and tremolos: G
• 15. Variation 29: Toccata with clusters: F sharp
• 16. Variation 30: Quodilbet: traversing all twelve keys. ending D
• 17. Aria da capo: G