The star Icelandic pianist is having an extraordinary year – recording, and now performing, Bach’s monumental work 88 times around the world. He explains why it gripped his imagination, and pushed him ...

Bach's towering keyboard masterpiece, by turns obsessive and joyous, is one of the most notoriously difficult pieces to grapple with. So why do pianists keep feeling its lure? I stopped watching ...

Chinese pianist Lang Lang went from being just one more fresh-faced and precocious teenaged phenomenon twenty years ago with his debut recording on Telarc, Lang Lang (2001), featuring the heady ...

Tonight, I am listening to J.S. Bach's "Goldberg Variations" performed on piano by Geoffroy Couteau, released by La Dolce ...

Owing to its Himalayan presence, Bach’s set of 30 keyboard variations is a daunting prospect for any recording artist. Lindsay Kemp speaks to Lang Lang – whose first recording of the work has just ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It seems to be open season for recordings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. There have been new recordings ...

Jane Jones explores ‘Music which rests lightly on the wings of the unchecked wind.’ I was captivated by these words from the legendary Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, re-cycling a quote from Beaudelaire ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. They are calling it “A Philharmonic Festival”. They are also calling it “The Bach Variations”. Both labels may ...

Passacaglia and Fugue, Movements: Passacaglia Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini, Director, Harpsichord Aria variata Rinaldo Alessandrini, Director, Harpsichord ...