Reimagined - Bach: Goldberg Variations / Podger, Brecon Baroque

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Label
Channel Classics
Release Date
October 20, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Johann Sebastian Bach
    • PERFORMER
      Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque, Modestas Pitrenas
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 20, 2023
    • UPC
      723385449232
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CCSSA44923
    • LABEL
      Channel Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Aria

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Brecon Baroque

      Performer: Rachel Podger

    2. Variatio 1. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Brecon Baroque

      Performer: Rachel Podger

    3. Variatio 2. a 1 Clav. - Variatio 3. Canone all'Unisuono. a 1 Clav. - Variatio 4. a 1 Clav. - Variatio 5. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Brecon Baroque

      Performer: Rachel Podger

    4. Variatio 6. Canone alla Seconda. a 1 Clav. - Variatio 7. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav. - Variatio 8. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Brecon Baroque

      Performer: Rachel Podger

    5. Variatio 9. Canone alla Terza. a 1 Clav. - Variatio 10. Fughetta. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Brecon Baroque

      Performer: Rachel Podger

    6. Variatio 11. a 2 Clav. - Variatio 12. Canone alla Quarta. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Brecon Baroque

      Performer: Rachel Podger

    7. Variatio 13. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Brecon Baroque

      Performer: Rachel Podger

    8. Variatio 14. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Brecon Baroque

      Performer: Rachel Podger

    9. Variatio 15. Canone alla Quinta. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Brecon Baroque

      Performer: Rachel Podger

    10. Variatio 16. Ouverture. a 1 Clav. - Variatio 17. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Brecon Baroque

      Performer: Rachel Podger

    11. Variatio 18. Canone alla Sexta. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Brecon Baroque

      Performer: Rachel Podger

    12. Variatio 19. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Brecon Baroque

      Performer: Rachel Podger

    13. Variatio 20. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Brecon Baroque

      Performer: Rachel Podger

    14. Variatio 21. Canone alla Settima. a 1 Clav. - Variatio 22. Alla breve. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Brecon Baroque

      Performer: Rachel Podger

    15. Variatio 23. a 2 Clav. - Variatio 24. Canone all'Ottava. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Brecon Baroque

      Performer: Rachel Podger

    16. Variatio 25. a 2 Clav. - Variatio 26. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Brecon Baroque

      Performer: Rachel Podger

    17. Variatio 27. Canone alla Nona. a 2 Clav. - Variatio 28. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Brecon Baroque

      Performer: Rachel Podger

    18. Variatio 29. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav. - Variatio 30. Quodlibet. a 1 Clav. - Aria da capo

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Brecon Baroque

      Performer: Rachel Podger


Imagining how Bach himself might have transformed the Goldberg Variations for a chamber group, Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque present a pioneering new arrangement of the Goldberg Variations by Chad Kelly. Employing a variety of instrumental combinations from a typical Bach ensemble of single strings, oboe, flute, bassoon, and harpsichord, these newly-crafted Goldbergs illuminate exquisite responses to the various historical genres inherent in Bach’s scores.

This beloved masterpiece was composed through a period of personal tumult for Bach; two unsuccessful job applications, the premature death of his son Gottfried, and criticism of his music in a prominent Hamburg publication. Bach’s outpouring of beauty in the Goldberg Variations has long captured audience’s imaginations - Chad Kelly, Rachel Podger, and her fleet Brecon Baroque preserve the work’s exquisite intricacy whilst adding breadth, texture and color to its emotional backdrop. This revisioning of Bach’s Goldberg Variations is a perfect transformation of the work for the modern era.