Last year a campaign was designed to raise funds for a unique experiment: Create a completely free to the public, new score and recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations. The plan was ...

A year-old Kickstarter project to release a public domain score and studio recording of J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations has finally wrapped up, and the copyright-free files are now available online.

Only a musician of intrepid character attempts Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations. One of the summits of the keyboard repertoire, this sublime collection of theme and 30 variations teems with ...

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 ...

The sheet music the pianist used for his iconic 1981 recording of the Goldberg Variations is expected to fetch between $100,000 and $150,000 In 1981, just a year before he died, the great Canadian ...

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 ...

A project to make available a public domain score and studio recording of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations for free online has finally seen fruition. Raising $15000 (£9500) via Kickstarter – a funding ...

An early biography of composer J.S. Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forke tells the story of how the famous variations known as Goldberg Variations came to be. Bach received a commission from Count Hermann ...

Legend has it that Johann Sebastian Bach composed the Baroque masterpiece known as the "Goldberg Variations" for an insomniac ambassador to be played on sleepless nights by the diplomat’s teenage ...