The Goldberg Variations stands high in the history of keyboard music,
alongside the innovative studies of Chopin and Liszt or Igor Stravinsky's Petrouchka, for its a revolutionary instrumental accomplishment. Similarly to works like the Studies by Chopin and Liszt or the Petrouchka Suite by Stravinsky, The Goldberg Variations is one of this kind of music which extends and revolutionize the instrumental idioms of its epoch.
The CD published by LMO-Records is available at amazon.com. It is uploaded here by the artist-producer.
I cannot find much to enjoy in this extraordinary performance of this particular version of Goldberg Variations.
There are isolated glimpses of Bach, but my complaint is that the music is willfully refracted through Okonsar's strange personality; and
JoseLBrophy 1 year ago