Matt Haimovitz, Jonathan Crow, Douglas McNabney - J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations (2008)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 394 MB | 01:13:09
Genre: Classical | Label: Oxingale Records
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 394 MB | 01:13:09
Genre: Classical | Label: Oxingale Records
The now infamous story of how J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations received their name – that Bach was asked to write them as a sleep aide of sorts for Count Kaiserling, whose assistant (Goldberg) would play music to help the Count fall asleep – has been found to be a somewhat unlikely and dubious account. Still, with few competing explanations, this at least makes for a good story. The variations have been analyzed and dissected by theoreticians, mathematicians, and even numerologists perhaps more than any other of Bach's works.