Javier Laso, Goldberg Variations

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Javier Laso performs the unquestionable richness of musical language embedded in the Goldberg Variations on the piano. It demonstrates Johann Sebastian Bach’s extraordinary originality of language in turning a simple theme into a masterpiece of rhythmic and melodic inventiveness.

The modernity of Bach’s language, rooted in the Baroque, allowed it to open the doors to some of the future’s most disruptive aesthetics. Written in 1741, these 30 variations on an aria of uncertain authorship reveal the German musician’s mastery of contrapuntal language and keyboard instrument technique in a work written originally for the harpsichord.

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