Repertoire
Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (1741) 51′
ARTISTS
Javier Laso, piano
Programme
The richness of musical language embedded in the Goldberg Variations is unquestionable. 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.
