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International Piano Magazine considers Yuan Sheng “China’s premier Bach interpreter”, the New York Times describes his Bach playing as “a model of clarity, balance and proportion”. Yuan Sheng studied in his native country in Bejing, and through a scholarship entered Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Solomon Mikowsky and later with Bach specialist Rosalyn Tureck. His interpretation of Bach’s famous Goldberg Variations is genuinely personal, but never artificial or self conscious. He doesn’t use the piano as a “pianistic” instrument (though his technical command is all the more impressive), but simply as a means to express the message of this music, a human message of beauty, joy and sorrow.
Tracklist:
00:00:00 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: I. Aria
00:04:27 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: II. Variatio 1
00:06:32 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: III. Variatio 2
00:07:58 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: IV. Variatio 3, canone all’unisono
00:09:41 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: V. Variatio 4
00:10:50 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: VI. Variatio 5
00:12:24 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: VII. Variatio 6, canone alla seconda
00:13:41 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: VIII. Variatio 7
00:15:22 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: IX. Variatio 8
00:17:22 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: X. Variatio 9, canone alla terza
00:19:21 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XI. Variatio 10, fughetta
00:21:01 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XII. Variatio 11
00:23:17 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XIII. Variatio 12, canone alla quarta
00:25:25 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XIV. Variatio 13
00:29:20 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XV. Variatio 14
00:31:38 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XVI. Variatio 15, canone alla quinta, andante
00:36:17 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XV. Variatio 16, ouverture
00:39:31 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XVI. Variatio 17
00:41:44 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XVII. Variatio 18, canone alla sesta
00:43:25 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XVIII. Variatio 19
00:44:55 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XIX. Variatio 20
00:47:03 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XX. Variatio 21, canone alla settima
00:50:38 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XXI. Variatio 22
00:52:15 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XXII. Variatio 23
00:54:29 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XXIII. Variatio 24, canone all’ottava
00:56:59 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XXIV. Variatio 25
01:04:54 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XXV. Variatio 26
01:07:02 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XXVI. Variatio 27, canone alla nona
01:08:45 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XXVII. Variatio 28
01:11:04 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XXVIII. Variatio 29
01:12:58 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XXIX. Variatio 30, quodlibet
01:14:43 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XXX. Aria da capo