Bach: Goldberg Variations
A recording that consciously resists the pace of our age
Tonmeister: Michael Silberhorn
Recording: Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt/Main, 2025
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Tracklist
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Goldberg Variations BWV 988
Aria - Variatio 1
- Variatio 2
- Variatio 3 – Canone all’ Unisuono
- Variatio 4
- Variatio 5
- Variatio 6 – Canone alla Seconda
- Variatio 7 – al tempo di Giga
- Variatio 8
- Variatio 9 – Canone alla Terza
- Variatio 10 – Fugetta
- Variatio 11
- Variatio 12 – Canone alla Quarta
- Variatio 13
- Variatio 14
- Variatio 15 – Canone alla Quinta – Andante
- Variatio 16 – Ouverture
- Variatio 17
- Variatio 18 – Canone alla Sexta
- Variatio 19
- Variatio 20
- Variatio 21 – Canone alla Settima
- Variatio 22 – Alla breve
- Variatio 23
- Variatio 24 – Canone all’ Ottava
- Variatio 25 – Adagio
- Variatio 26
- Variatio 27 – Canone alla Nona
- Variatio 28
- Variatio 29
- Variatio 30 – Quodlibet
- Aria da capo
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Making and listening to music as an act of resistance against the relentless 24/7 rhythm of our era: with his beautifully clear new recording of Bach’s “Goldberg Variations”, released by GENUIN, Miłosz Sroczyński offers a deliberate counterbalance to the accelerating pace of modern life. In an accompanying essay, he reflects on music as a response to the late-capitalist demand for constant productivity and endless wakefulness. His interpretation – with which he made a highly acclaimed debut at the Davos Festival 2024 – is shaped by filigree lightness and long, seamlessly flowing musical arcs: transparent, weightless, and deeply focused. A reflective artist at the piano, Sroczyński gives us time to listen – inviting us to immerse ourselves, variation by variation, in this music.
