Track Listing

1. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Aria
2. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 1
3. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 2
4. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 3
5. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 4
6. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 5
7. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 6
8. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 7
9. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 8
10. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 9
11. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 10
12. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 11
13. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 12
14. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 13
15. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 14
16. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 15
17. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 16
18. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 17
19. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 18
20. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 19
21. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 20
22. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 21
23. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 22
24. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 23
25. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 24
26. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 25
27. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 26
28. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 27
29. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 28
30. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 29
31. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Variation 30
32. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-�bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9): Aria da capo

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #173292 in Music
• Brand: Bach
• Released on: 1995-01-31
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Amazon.com essential recording
Rosalyn Tureck's Goldbergs are brilliant but curious. Her phrasing is sometimes artificial, studied, and pedantic. Yet she can spin out the minor key variations with a liquid legato and noble flexibility that harkens back to the great Romantic players. Tureck has a brain in every finger, though, and a singular temperament that compels you to listen. This live 1982 recording is a case in point. --Jed Distler

Customer Reviews

Essential
A gift for melodic expression and an unerring sense of rhythm make Tureck's the most satisfying of currently available Goldbergs. Not as intellectually pioneering as either of the Gould sets, this is nonetheless the most overtly beautiful of all, calling to mind Schiff at his most expressive in his superb survey of Bach's keyboard works.

Very strong competition from all the other famous sets, but this one has a little more heart and song. In any case, to reasonably appreciate any one set, comparison is essential and one needs 3 or 4 of the great versions - at least. The lucky ones will include this among them.

The best Goldberg, without a doubt
Like several of the previous reviewers, I have collected numerous versions of the Goldberg Variation (including three of the Tureck performances), this being my favorite piece of music in the universe. To my mind, this live performance recorded in the 80's is without a doubt, the best ever Goldberg. Like all other Tureck performances, there is extraordinary authority, integrity, and a sense of inevitability. Unlike some of her earlier and later versions, there is also is this version tremendous spontaneity and naturalness, and most of all, a sense of profound joy.

The supposedly popular recordings (e.g., by Gould or Perahia) are simply not in the same league.

This is not one of the best, but the very best performance.
She deserves the highest praise for her interpretation, character, as well as her perfection in the combination of sonority and touch that is almost divine.