Variations Goldberg BWV 988

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Dimitry Sitkovetsky remembered hearing his mother Bella Davidovitch play the Goldbergs when he was a child. But as a worthy son of his father, his instrument would be the violin. However, he did not give up on the Goldbergs and ultimately, rediscovering the work through listening to Glenn Gould's records, he decided in the early 1980s to arrange it for three string instruments, seizing the opportunity to play it with his friends Gérard Caussé and Misha Maisky, and to record it for his then-publisher Orfeo. The album released in 1984 made quite an impression, initially seeking poetry and shedding the keyboard – goodbye to Gould's staccato! – lightening it with ethereal bows where the melody dances, disappears, and returns, pure magic that other instrumentalists will seek to capture—Frank Peter Zimmermann and his friends have recently succeeded in this, and I will return to that—but which was embodied with an inimitable naturalness in this first recording that the publisher is finally reissuing. If you don't know it, rush to get it. (Discophilia - Artalinna.com) (Jean-Charles Hoffelé)