Artist: Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque, Modestas Pitrenas
Title: Bach: Goldberg Variations Reimagined
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Channel Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: 24bit-192kHz FLAC (tracks + booklet)
Total Time: 01:21:13
Total Size:  2.77 GB

Tracklist:

1. Bach: Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Aria (3:41)
2. Bach: Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variation 1 (2:01)
3. Bach: Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variation 2 - Variation 3 "Canone all’Unisono" - Variation 4 - Variation 5 (7:23)
4. Bach: Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variation 6 "Canone alla Seconda" - Variation 7 "Al tempo di Giga" - Variation 8 (5:19)
5. Bach: Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variation 9 "Canone alla Terza" - Variation 10 "Fughetta" (3:09)
6. Bach: Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variation 11 - Variation 12 "Canone alla Quarta" (4:36)
7. Bach: Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variation 13 (5:41)
8. Bach: Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variation 14 (2:04)
9. Bach: Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variation 15 "Canone alla Quinta in moto contrario, andante" (3:56)
10. Bach: Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variation 16 "Ouverture" - Variation 17 (6:28)
11. Bach: Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variation 18 "Canone alla Sesta" (2:01)
12. Bach: Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variation 19 (1:25)
13. Bach: Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variation 20 (2:04)
14. Bach: Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variation 21 "Canone alla Settima" - Variation 22 "alla breve" (3:48)
15. Bach: Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variation 23 - Variation 24 "Canone all’Ottava" (5:41)
16. Bach: Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variation 25 "Adagio" - Variation 26 (10:05)
17. Bach: Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variation 27 "Canone alla Nona" - Variation 28 (4:50)
18. Bach: Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble by Chad Kelly): Variation 29 - Variation 30 "Quodlibet" - "Aria da capo" (7:13)

Imagining how Bach himself might have transformed the Goldbergs Variations for a chamber group, Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque present a pioneering new arrangement of the Goldberg Variations by Chad Kelly. Employing a variety of instrumental combinations from a typical Bach ensemble of single strings, oboe, flute, bassoon and harpsichord, these newly-crafted Goldbergs illuminate exquisite responses to the various historical genres inherent in Bach’s scores. This beloved masterpiece was composed through a period of personal tumult for Bach; two unsuccessful job applications, the premature death of his son Gottfried, and criticism of his music in a prominent Hamburg publication. Bach’s outpouring of beauty in the Goldberg Variations has long captured audience’s imaginations - Chad Kelly, Rachel Podger and her fleet Brecon Baroque preserve the work’s exquisite intricacy whilst adding breadth, texture and colour to its emotional backdrop. This revisioning of Bach’s Goldberg Variations is a perfect transformation of the work for the modern era.