Bach Variations Goldberg

Description

Bach has always been a personal passion for the great Franco-American pianist Nicholas Angelich, unanimously recognized as a leading interpreter of the German Romantic repertoire, particularly of Brahms. Today, the artist takes on a continent of classical music: the Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach, a theme developed in variations 30 times over more than an hour. They represent one of the peaks of keyboard music; the work is of extraordinary richness in forms, harmonies, rhythms, expression, and technical refinement, all based on an unparalleled contrapuntal technique. It is this monumental edifice of these "Exercises for keyboard" that Nicholas Angelich tackles. "It is very important to scrutinize the score and to ask the right questions. The more you scrutinize it, the more you discover new details. You must always have an overview of a work, but also magnify the details. But this can put you in a position where you cannot reconcile the overall structure with the finest details. Because if you decide at a certain moment to highlight a detail that sounds beautiful, but that disconnects from the whole, then something is not working, and it shows. We always try to identify both what SOUNDS beautiful and what IS true. Does that seem too intellectual to you? Perhaps, but it is also a matter of instinct, which leads you to consider the score as the only path that leads you to your interpretation." Nicholas Angelich