Pianists are measured against one another by how they handle benchmark compositions. For instance, with their rigor and accessibility, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations helped bestow master ...

Pianist Yunchan Lim is on fire. Just 20 years old and still in studies at the New England Conservatory, he is the youngest-ever winner of the gold medal at the prestigious Van Cliburn Competition.

J.S. Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” begins with a song, an aria, which is wistful, haunting, beyond beautiful. It’s all right there in the notes. Yet the pianist Simone Dinnerstein does something very ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The New York Philharmonic presents The Bach Variations: Violin Concertos in A ...

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 ...

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 ...

Count Keyserlingk, the insomniac Russian ambassador to the Kingdom of Saxony for whom Johann Sebastian Bach may have written the Goldberg Variations, supposedly rewarded the composer with a golden ...

Virtuoso pianist Lang Lang has conquered many musical mountains, but now he takes on what he considers his Mount Everest: Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Unable to perform for live audiences during the ...