Goldberg Variations
Album by Johann Sebastian Bach & Víkingur Ólafsson
The Goldberg Variations is a composition for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach, first published in 1741. The work consists of a theme and thirty variations that explore contrapuntal techniques, variation form and contrasting keyboard textures ranging from two-voice writing to virtuosic passages, and it occupies a distinctive place in Bach's late-Baroque keyboard output as an extended study in variation and counterpoint.
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- 1.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria4:05
- 2.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 1 a 1 Clav.1:30
- 3.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 2 a 1 Clav.1:26
- 4.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 3 a 1 Clav. Canone all’Unisono1:51
- 5.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 4 a 1 Clav.0:56
- 6.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 5 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav.1:12
- 7.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 6 a 1 Clav. Canone alle Seconda1:09
- 8.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 7 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav. Al tempo di Giga2:12
- 9.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 8 a 2 Clav.1:37
- 10.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 9 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Terza1:36
- 11.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 10 a 1 Clav. Fughetta1:33
- 12.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 11 a 2 Clav.1:40
- 13.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 12. Canone alla Quarta1:53
- 14.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 13 a 2 Clav.4:06
- 15.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 14 a 2 Clav.2:02
- 16.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 15 a 1 Clav. Canone alle Quinta in moto contrario. Andante5:37
- 17.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 16 a 1 Clav. Ouverture2:41
- 18.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 17 a 2 Clav.1:56
- 19.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 18 a 1 Clav.1:28
- 20.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 19 a 1 Clav.1:07
- 21.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 20 a 2 Clav.1:49
- 22.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 21. Canone alla Settima3:15
- 23.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 22 a 1 Clav. Alla breve1:16
- 24.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 23 a 2 Clav.1:54
- 25.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 24 a 1 Clav. Canone all’Ottava2:48
- 26.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 25 a 2 Clav.9:48
- 27.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 26 a 2 Clav.1:44
- 28.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 27 a 2 Clav. Canone alla Nona1:32
- 29.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 28 a 2 Clav.2:04
- 30.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 29 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav.1:47
- 31.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variato 30 a 1 Clav. Quodlibet1:56
- 32.Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria da capo2:36













