Bach Weissenberg - Goldberg Variations (32 tracks) +Album Reviews

Search - Bach, Weissenberg :: Goldberg Variations

Bach, Weissenberg
Goldberg Variations
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (32) - Disc #1
1. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Aria
2. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 1
3. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 2
4. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 3
5. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 4
6. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 5
7. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 6
8. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 7
9. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 8
10. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 9
11. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 10
12. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 11
13. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 12
14. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 13
15. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 14
16. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 15
17. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 16
18. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 17
19. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 18
20. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 19
21. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 20
22. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 21
23. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 22
24. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 23
25. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 24
26. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 25
27. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 26
28. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 27
29. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 28
30. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 29
31. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Vars 30
32. Aria With Vars, BWV 988 'Goldberg Vars': Aria, De Capo

CD Details

All Artists: Bach, Weissenberg
Title: Goldberg Variations
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: EMI Classics
Release Date: 3/25/2003
Genre: Classical
Style: Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 724357495226

CD Reviews

Excitable,sometimes brutal approach

Peter Heddon | 06/07/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"While not displacing Gould's 1982 recording Weissenberg is definitely among the more charismatic accounts of this milestone work i've heard on the Piano.

Okay,it's not perfect:Part playing can be a bit blurred,tempi accelerate for 2nd time repeats (why!?)and variation 12 completely lacks definition but who could possibly resist Weissenberg's impetuos variation 5, the toppling cascades of notes in Variation 8,the shrill trills of var.28 or the clangorous intensity of the final variation.In short,my attention didn't waver much.

While Weissenberg's Bach is shown to even better advantage on a DG recording a few years later (Partitas 4,6+Italian Concerto)this is definitely an interesting alternative to the better mannered (but too refined for my liking)approach to be found from Schiff,Perahia etc."