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Bach - Goldberg Variations

A chance to relive a very special late night Prom with the Grammy Award-winning pianist András Schiff, performing JS Bach's Goldberg Variations live at the Proms in 2015.

A chance to relive a very special late night Prom with the Grammy Award-winning pianist András Schiff, performing JS Bach's Goldberg Variations live at the Proms in 2015.

Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Bach: 'Goldberg' Variations, BWV 988

András Schiff, piano

Grammy Award-winning pianist Sir András Schiff is a titan of the keyboard, bringing his distinctive blend of clarity and authority to repertoire from Bach to Bartók. In this Prom he continues his long association with Bach's music in a performance of the composer's 'Goldberg' Variations - a monumental work composed, according to its title-page, 'for the refreshment of the spirits'. The resulting Aria and variations are a compositional wonder, a sequence of musical miniatures unequalled in all Bach's output.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 10 Sep 2020 23:00

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont, Op 84 (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Klaus Tennstedt.
    • LPO.

Broadcast

  • Thu 10 Sep 2020 23:00

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