In the liner notes for her dazzling new recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations (Hyperion), Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt details each of the 28 pieces with casual erudition, dispatching technical observations with an easy familiarity that bleeds into something more personal. She writes of how with every onset of the 22nd Variation she gets “a feeling […]
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Dear Bach . . . Love, Ayako Kato
Dancer-choreographer Ayako Kato waxes eloquent in “Existencia Esencia”
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Dan Tepfer’s “Goldberg Variations”
On his absorbing new album, jazz pianist Dan Tepfer gives a beautiful rendering of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, with each section followed by an improvisation on the theme.
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Friday: Christopher Taylor performs the Goldberg Variations
Pianist Christopher Taylor, an associate music prof at the University of Wisconsin, performs the Goldberg Variations on Friday at the University of Chicago. An opportunity to see the Goldbergs is always a treat, and Taylor is an outstanding pianist – his performance of Messiaen’s complete, immensely challenging “Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus,” one of his specialties, […]
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Enthusiasms
A hopefully instructive analysis on how I learned to love comedian Maria Bamford and stand-up generally, plus bonus awesome things.