Jean Rondeau © Shura Rusanova / Warner Classics
Resonanzen: Jean Rondeau, Cembalo
Bach: Goldberg-Variationen
Monday
20
January
2025
19:30 – ca. 21:00
Mozart-Saal
Performers
Jean Rondeau, Cembalo
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen. Clavier-Übung IV BWV 988 »Goldberg-Variationen« (1741–1742)
Note
Medienpartner Ö1 Club und Der Standard
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Resonanzen
Festival
Resonanzen »Alte Meister«
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Practice makes perfect
The first-person narrator of Thomas Bernhard's novel »Der Untergeher« calls the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould the »most clairvoyant of fools«, who is struck by a stroke »in the middle of the Goldberg Variations«. It is true that Gould died of a stroke in 1982, just a few months after the release of his second studio recording of the 4th part of Bach's »Clavier-Übung«. To this day, the monumental work of variations is inextricably linked with his legendary interpretation. For many, Gould thus became the epitome of iron (self-)discipline and uncompromising perfectionism; a claim that Jean Rondeau also reveals when he confesses: »The whole Bach is contained in the ›Goldberg Variations‹; the whole music is contained in them; and I will undoubtedly spend my life working on them.«