Goldberg Variations

Album by Johann Sebastian Bach & Les Violons du Roy & Bernard Labadie

The Goldberg Variations is a keyboard composition for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach, published in 1741. Built as an aria followed by thirty variations, it systematically explores contrapuntal techniques such as canons at successive intervals alongside varied dance and virtuosic forms, and occupies a central place in Bach's late keyboard output and in the history of keyboard composition.
First released: 11th April 2000

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria
    4:08
  2. 2.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 1
    1:57
  3. 3.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 2
    1:33
  4. 4.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 3 Canone all'unisono
    2:28
  5. 5.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 4
    1:02
  6. 6.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 5
    1:42
  7. 7.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 6 Canone alla seconda
    1:25
  8. 8.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 7
    2:13
  9. 9.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 8
    1:57
  10. 10.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 9 Canone alla terza
    1:42
  11. 11.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 10 Fughetta
    1:28
  12. 12.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 11
    2:27
  13. 13.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 12 Canone alla quarta
    2:04
  14. 14.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 13
    6:18
  15. 15.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 14
    2:11
  16. 16.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 15 Canone alla quinta
    4:05
  17. 17.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 16 Ouverture
    2:47
  18. 18.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 17
    2:27
  19. 19.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 18 Canone alla sesta
    1:34
  20. 20.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 19
    1:52
  21. 21.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 20
    2:15
  22. 22.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 21 Canone alla settima
    2:16
  23. 23.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 22
    1:13
  24. 24.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 23
    2:40
  25. 25.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 24 Canone all'ottava
    2:19
  26. 26.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 25
    5:40
  27. 27.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 26
    2:11
  28. 28.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 27 Canone alla nona
    2:21
  29. 29.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 28
    3:02
  30. 30.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 29
    2:23
  31. 31.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 30 Quodlibet
    1:38
  32. 32.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria da capo
    4:12

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