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Bach: Goldberg Variations / Borregaard

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Details

Composer
BACH, J.S.
Artist
Andreas Borregaard
Format
SACD with CD
Label
BIS
Released
Aug 03, 2018
Catalog #
BIS-2399
UPC
7318599923994

About

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

Tracklist 32 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 Aria 04:35
    Track
    1
    Title
    Aria
    Duration
    04:35
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  3. 2 Variatio 1. a 1 Clav. 02:00
    Track
    2
    Title
    Variatio 1. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    02:00
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  4. 3 Variatio 2. a 1 Clav. 02:07
    Track
    3
    Title
    Variatio 2. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    02:07
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  5. 4 Variatio 3. Canone all'Unisuono a 1 Clav. 02:08
    Track
    4
    Title
    Variatio 3. Canone all'Unisuono a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    02:08
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  6. 5 Variatio 4. a 1 Clav. 01:08
    Track
    5
    Title
    Variatio 4. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    01:08
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  7. 6 Variatio 5. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav. 01:54
    Track
    6
    Title
    Variatio 5. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav.
    Duration
    01:54
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  8. 7 Variatio 6. Canone alla Seconda. a 1 Clav. 01:39
    Track
    7
    Title
    Variatio 6. Canone alla Seconda. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    01:39
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  9. 8 Variatio 7. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav. 02:06
    Track
    8
    Title
    Variatio 7. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav.
    Duration
    02:06
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  10. 9 Variatio 8. a 2 Clav. 02:04
    Track
    9
    Title
    Variatio 8. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    02:04
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  11. 10 Variatio 9. Canzone alla Terza. a 1 Clav. 02:24
    Track
    10
    Title
    Variatio 9. Canzone alla Terza. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  12. 11 Variatio 10. Fughetta. a 1 Clav. 01:47
    Track
    11
    Title
    Variatio 10. Fughetta. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    01:47
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  13. 12 Variatio 11. a 2 Clav. 02:14
    Track
    12
    Title
    Variatio 11. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    02:14
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  14. 13 Variatio 12. Canone alla Quarta. a 1 Clav. 02:27
    Track
    13
    Title
    Variatio 12. Canone alla Quarta. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    02:27
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  15. 14 Variatio 13. a 2 Clav. 05:51
    Track
    14
    Title
    Variatio 13. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    05:51
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  16. 15 Variatio 14. a 2 Clav. 02:31
    Track
    15
    Title
    Variatio 14. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    02:31
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  17. 16 Variatio 15. Canone alla Quinta. a 1 Clav. 05:44
    Track
    16
    Title
    Variatio 15. Canone alla Quinta. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    05:44
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  18. Disc 2
  19. 1 Variatio 16. Ouverture. a 1 Clav. 03:01
    Track
    1
    Title
    Variatio 16. Ouverture. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    03:01
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  20. 2 Variatio 17. a 2 Clav. 02:27
    Track
    2
    Title
    Variatio 17. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    02:27
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  21. 3 Variatio 18. Canone alla Sexta. a 1 Clav. 01:45
    Track
    3
    Title
    Variatio 18. Canone alla Sexta. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    01:45
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  22. 4 Variatio 19. a 1 Clav. 01:19
    Track
    4
    Title
    Variatio 19. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    01:19
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  23. 5 Variatio 20. a 2 Clav. 02:22
    Track
    5
    Title
    Variatio 20. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  24. 6 Variatio 21. Canone alla Settima. a 1 Clav. 03:52
    Track
    6
    Title
    Variatio 21. Canone alla Settima. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    03:52
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  25. 7 Variatio 22. a 1 Clav. 01:31
    Track
    7
    Title
    Variatio 22. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    01:31
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  26. 8 Variatio 23. a 2 Clav. 02:37
    Track
    8
    Title
    Variatio 23. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    02:37
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  27. 9 Variatio 24. Canone all' Ottava. a 1 Clav. 02:53
    Track
    9
    Title
    Variatio 24. Canone all' Ottava. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    02:53
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  28. 10 Variatio 25. a 2 Clav. 09:28
    Track
    10
    Title
    Variatio 25. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    09:28
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  29. 11 Variatio 26. a 2 Clav. 02:22
    Track
    11
    Title
    Variatio 26. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  30. 12 Variatio 27. Canone alla Nona. a 2 Clav. 02:32
    Track
    12
    Title
    Variatio 27. Canone alla Nona. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    02:32
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  31. 13 Variatio 28. a 2 Clav. 02:39
    Track
    13
    Title
    Variatio 28. a 2 Clav.
    Duration
    02:39
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  32. 14 Variatio 29. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav. 02:40
    Track
    14
    Title
    Variatio 29. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav.
    Duration
    02:40
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  33. 15 Variatio 30. Quodlibet. a 1 Clav. 02:22
    Track
    15
    Title
    Variatio 30. Quodlibet. a 1 Clav.
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard
  34. 16 Aria da capo 02:30
    Track
    16
    Title
    Aria da capo
    Duration
    02:30
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Andreas Borregaard