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Bach's Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 form the final part of his monumental ClavierÜbung (Keyboard Practices) series and appeared in print in 1741. The work exploits the full technical and musical resources of the two-manual harpsichord and it's player. Within the framework of it's thirty elaborate variations on a 32-bar ground bass, the work presents a dazzling compendium of keyboard styles, from learned counterpoint through to the most audacious and modern abstract writing for an instrument with two independent keyboards. The present recording is one the final volumes of Peter Watchorn's complete survey of Bach's entire harpsichord output. Album Tracks 1. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Aria 2. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Variation 1 (1 keyboard) 3. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Variation 2 (1 kb) 4. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Variation 3 (Canon at the unison; 1 kb) 5. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Variation 4 (1 kb) 6. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Variation 5 (1 or 2 kb) 7. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Variation 6 (Canon at the 2nd; 1 kb) 8. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Variation 7 (Giga; 1 or 2 kb) 9. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Variation 8 (2 kb) 10. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Variation 9 (Canon at the 3rd; 1 kb) 11. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Variation 10 (Fughetta; 1 kb) 12. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Variation 11 (2 kb) 13. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Variation 12 (Inversion canon at the 4th) 14. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Variation 13 (2 kb) 15. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Variation 14 (2 kb) 16. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Variation 15 (Inversion canon at the 5th; 1 kb) 1. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Variation 16 (Ouverture; 1 kb) 2. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Variation 17 (2 kb) 3. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Variation 18 (Canon at the 6th; 1 kb) 4. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988~Variation 19 (1 kb) 5.
