In this concert, the audience experiences a well-known baroque work in a completely different way, the way we actually perceive our living space every day: historic, listed buildings stand side by side with modern buildings and infrastructure. The harpsichord with its historical tuning and the percussion with its modern language harmonize wonderfully with each other.
Johann Sebastian Bach gave his Goldberg Variations the title "Aria with various changes" - a great understatement! We do not know whether there were many harpsichordists at the time who could play this work in the same way as its composer or his brilliant pupil Johann Gottlieb Goldberg. The fact is that music lovers of Bach's time practiced the harpsichord work literally to the point of despair. It remains to be seen whether they felt the "emotional exaltation" their creator was aiming for!
Goldberg Variations as a sleeping pill?
There is an anecdote surrounding the title of the work. According to the story, Bach wrote the Goldberg Variations for his patron, Count Keyserlingk from Dresden. He suffered from acute insomnia. Bach's pupil Goldberg was the house harpsichordist at Keyserlingk Castle and played individual parts of the work to the count on sleepless nights.
Today, we assume that the variations act more as a tonic and stimulant than as a sleeping pill, especially in the excitingly updated form of the concert on November 24.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Johann Sebastian Bach gave his Goldberg Variations the title "Aria with various changes" - a great understatement! We do not know whether there were many harpsichordists at the time who could play this work in the same way as its composer or his brilliant pupil Johann Gottlieb Goldberg. The fact is that music lovers of Bach's time practiced the harpsichord work literally to the point of despair. It remains to be seen whether they felt the "emotional exaltation" their creator was aiming for!
Goldberg Variations as a sleeping pill?
There is an anecdote surrounding the title of the work. According to the story, Bach wrote the Goldberg Variations for his patron, Count Keyserlingk from Dresden. He suffered from acute insomnia. Bach's pupil Goldberg was the house harpsichordist at Keyserlingk Castle and played individual parts of the work to the count on sleepless nights.
Today, we assume that the variations act more as a tonic and stimulant than as a sleeping pill, especially in the excitingly updated form of the concert on November 24.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
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