Evgeni Koroliov - Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 369 Mb | Total time: 84:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hänssler Classic | CD 92.112 | Recorded: 1999
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 369 Mb | Total time: 84:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hänssler Classic | CD 92.112 | Recorded: 1999
Evgeny Koroliovʼs Golberg variations have become a cult recording. Seldom has this monumental piece sounded so purely musical, with such natural rhetorics, in fact simply so beautiful as in his hands. This recording was showered with international prizes, such as Diapason dʼor and others. György Ligeti chose Koroliovʼs Bach as his desert island disc : “forsaken and dying of thirst, I would listen to it up ʻtil my last breath”. Koroliov was born in Russia in 1949, his teachers were Maria Yudina, Heinrich Neuhaus and Lev Oborin. He soon settled in Hamburg/Germany, from where he developed his international career as a soloist and much-in-demand teacher.