Bach: Goldberg Variations Bwv 988 / András Schiff
Classical | Easy CD-DA | FLAC tracks, CUE, No Log | 1 CD, Covers HQ | 234 Mb
Date CD: Nov, 2006 | Decca
Classical | Easy CD-DA | FLAC tracks, CUE, No Log | 1 CD, Covers HQ | 234 Mb
Date CD: Nov, 2006 | Decca
| “ | Among recordings of Bach's monumental "Goldberg Variations" on the piano, András Schiff's 1982 set is justly famous. Unlike so many discs that have been issued in tired series designated "legendary recordings" or some other such term, this one fully lives up to the billing with its incredible delineation of Bach's contrapuntal lines. You hear every note, every hidden piece of the inner clockwork of each variation. Sample variation 14, with its trills erupting sharply from each line like spring flowers blooming with freakishly rapid intensity -- nobody else has ever given this variation such a glittering quality. Even as Schiff uses the full resources of the piano, with lots of pedal and thoroughly unidiomatic crescendos, he articulates every note Bach wrote. Schiff sets himself technical challenges and then surmounts them. Beginning with the opening Aria he sets a blistering pace -- one that may seem too fast, especially in the slow variations, to those raised on Glenn Gould's dreamy readings. But listen to the high-wire act Schiff performs in the canonic variation 21. | ” |
