Bach: Goldberg Variations / Borregaard

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BIS
Release Date
August 3, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH, J.S.
    • PERFORMER
      Andreas Borregaard
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 03, 2018
    • UPC
      7318599923994
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2399
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Aria

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    2. Variatio 1. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    3. Variatio 2. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    4. Variatio 3. Canone all'Unisuono a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    5. Variatio 4. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    6. Variatio 5. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    7. Variatio 6. Canone alla Seconda. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    8. Variatio 7. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    9. Variatio 8. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    10. Variatio 9. Canzone alla Terza. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    11. Variatio 10. Fughetta. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    12. Variatio 11. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    13. Variatio 12. Canone alla Quarta. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    14. Variatio 13. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    15. Variatio 14. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

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

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    17. Variatio 16. Ouverture. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    18. Variatio 17. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

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

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    20. Variatio 19. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    21. Variatio 20. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    22. Variatio 21. Canone alla Settima. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    23. Variatio 22. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    24. Variatio 23. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    25. Variatio 24. Canone all' Ottava. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    26. Variatio 25. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    27. Variatio 26. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

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

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    29. Variatio 28. a 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    30. Variatio 29. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    31. Variatio 30. Quodlibet. a 1 Clav.

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard

    32. Aria da capo

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Andreas Borregaard


The Goldberg Variations, or – to use the original title – ‘Aria with diverse variations’ counts as a milestone in Western music history. With good reason: the huge work and its highly systematic structure demonstrate with utmost clarity Bach’s immense skill as a composer. Books and treatises have been written to analyse how it is constructed, amazing both musicologists and mathematicians. But as the Danish accordionist Andreas Borregaard writes in his own liner notes to this disc: ‘the Goldberg Variations are so much more than a gigantic, sounding sudoku. Each variation is an expressive universe unto itself, and the music passes through almost every corner of the human spectrum of emotions.’ Originally written for the harpsichord, the work has become part of the piano repertoire, but the emotional range that Borregaard emphasizes is perhaps brought out even more clearly when it is performed, as here, on the accordion. The inherent nostalgia of the Aria is more poignant than ever, the gigue in Variation 7 has the swagger of sailors on shore leave, and the introspection of Variation 15 is almost hypnotic.

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REVIEW:

Andreas Borregaard’s arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for piano accordion freely proclaims that instrument’s kinship with the organ. It also has two manuals, facilitating the playing of passages which were written for two harpsichord manuals; in addition, as Borregaard notes, the accordion’s bellows allow the sound to be shaped ‘in a way that is impossible to achieve on the organ, piano or harpsichord’. This is terrific playing, by turns dancelike, lyrical and infused with a good-humoured reverence for such a distillation of Bach’s art as the Goldbergs.

– Gramophone