- List of recordings of the Goldberg Variations
This is a partial list of recordings of
Johann Sebastian Bach 'sGoldberg Variations .Listed by date
*Wanda Landowska - November 1933Paris - EMI 5 67200 - ADD - "harpsichord"
*Claudio Arrau - January-March 1942 - RCA CD GD 87841 - "piano"
* Wanda Landowska - 1945 - New York City - RCA - "harpsichord"
*Glenn Gould -June 21 1954 Toronto , from CBC broadcast - mono - "piano"
* Glenn Gould - "The Goldberg Variations (Gould Album) " -June 10 1955 New York - Sony Classical 52 594 - ADD - "piano"
**One of the best-known and most highly regarded, performed on the piano by Gould as his eye-opening debut recording; Gould later came to criticize his early off-beat and lyrical interpretation, expressing reservations about its pianistic affectation, overt emotionalism, and lack of temporal unity.
*Rosalyn Tureck - 1957 - HMV / Capitol London - Abbey Road Studios - 2 CD Philips "Great pianists of the century" - "piano"
*Glenn Gould - 1959 live atSalzburg Festival - Sony Classical 52685 - ADD - "piano"
*Ralph Kirkpatrick - 1959 Deutsche Grammophon 439 673-2 - ADD - "harpsichord"
*Helmut Walcha - June 1960-March 1961 - Hamburg - EMI 4 89166 - ADD - "harpsichord"
*Maria Yudina - January 1968 - Moscow - Philips 456 994-2 "Great pianists of the century" - "piano"
*Wilhelm Kempff - July 1969 Deutsche Grammophon 439 978-2 - ADD - "piano"
*Charles Rosen - July 1969 Sony SBK 48173 - ADD - "piano"
*Marga Scheurich - 1977 LP Saphir Intercord INT 120.886 - "harpsichord"
*Gustav Leonhardt - 1978 Deutsche Harmonia Mundi GD77149 - ADD - "harpsichord"
*Trevor Pinnock - 1980 Archiv Produktion 415 130-2 - ADD - "harpsichord"
*Alexis Weissenberg - 1981 EMI 5 74952 2 - "piano"
*Glenn Gould - April/May 1981New York - originally CBS Masterworks MK 37779, now Sony Classical 52619 - DDD - "piano"
**One of Gould's very few re-recorded pieces, this time a more classical, dignified and sober rendition, won two 1983Grammy Award s for "best instrumental soloist performance (without orchestra)" and "best classical album"
*Grigory Sokolov - 27 February 1982,Leningrad (live) - Melodiya - "piano"
*András Schiff - Decca 1983 - 417 116-2 (1 CD) - "All repeats"
*Chen Pi-hsien - October 1985 at Festeburgkirche,Frankfurt Naxos 8.550078 - DDD - "piano"
* Kenneth Gilbert - April 1986 - 1 CD Harmonia Mundi - Mas de Vert, Arles - "harpsichord"
*Maria Tipo - 26-28 June 1986 Paris EMI HMV 5 86666 - DDD - "piano"
*Igor Lazko - c.1987 - Belgrade Broadcasting, PGP 2330172 - "piano"
*Jean Guillou - November 1987 Eglise Notre-Dame des Neiges, Alpe d'Huez,France Dorian 90110 - "organ"
*Ton Koopman - 1988 ERATO 45326-2 - DDD - "harpsichord"
* Rosalyn Tureck - 1979 or 1984 - DG - Most probably Hamburg - Reissue 1988 1 CD VAI Audio - Piano
*Keith Jarrett - January 1989 ECM Records 839 622-2 - DDD - "harpsichord"
* Bronisława Kawalla - February 1989 - Polskie Nagrania PNCD 055 - DDD - "piano"
*Tjako van Schie - February 1991 - Netherlands, Rondo001 - DDD - "piano"
*Christiane Jaccottet - 1991 Pilz 160127 - "harpsichord" - "no repeats" [ [http://www.jsbach.org/jaccottetgoldbergvariations.html Goldberg Variations by Christiane Jaccottet at jsbach.org ] ]
*Virginia Black - Collins 1991 - 70032-2 (2 CDs) - "All repeats"
*Maggie Cole - 1991 Virgin 5 61555 (2 CD) - DDD - "clavicembalo"
*Vladimir Feltsman -October 26 1991 live at the Moscow Conservatory - [http://www.musicalheritage.com/ Musical Heritage Society] 513260T - DDD - "piano" - "All repeats"
*Tatiana Nikolayeva -January 23 1992 - Hyperion Records CDA66589
*Pierre Hantaï - June 1992 - Opus 111 OPS 30-84 - DDD - "harpsichord"
*Bruno Canino -Lugano , January 16-17 1993 - Ermitage ERM 412-2 - DDD - "piano"
*Andrei Gavrilov - 1993 Deutsche Grammophon 435 436-2 - DDD - "piano"
*New European Strings Chamber Orchestra (Orchestra) - October 1993Hamburg , transcription byDmitry Sitkovetsky - Nonesuch - "orchestra"
*Eleonore Bühler-Kestler - October 1993, Bayreuth - CHARADE; CHA 3012 - DDD - "harpsichord"
*Peter Serkin - June 1-3, 1994 Manhattan BMG Classics 09026 68188 2 - DDD - "piano"
*Konstantin Lifschitz - June 10-13 1994 Denon Records - #78961 - DDD - "piano" (Lifschitz was 17 at time of recording.)
*Christophe Rousset - September 27-29, 1994 originallyL'Oiseau-Lyre , now Decca 475 7080 - DDD - "harpsichord" - "All repeats"
*Ekaterina Dershavina - 1994
*Sergey Schepkin - January 15, 1995, Ongaku Records 024-107 - DDD - "piano" - "All repeats"
* Kurt Rodarmer - 1996 - Sony SK 60257 - DDD - "two guitars (overdubbed)"
* Robin Sutherland - 1996 - d'Note Classics DND 1013- ADD - "piano" - "All repeats"
*Masaaki Suzuki - February, June and July 1997 BIS BIS-CD-310819 - DDD - "harpsichord" - "All repeats"
*József Eötvös (musician) - 1997 - EJ-01WZ - DDD - "solo guitar"
* Rosalyn Tureck - 1998 - 2 CD DG - Hamburg - Piano
*Rosalyn Tureck - 1999 - (1) Polygram Records - #459599; also (2) Video Arts Int'l (VAI) - #1029 [ [http://www.jsbach.org/goldbergrosalyn.html Goldberg Variations by Rosalyn Tureck at jsbach.org ] ]
*Pieter-Jan Belder - 20 April, 8/9 July 1999 - Brilliant Classics 92284 - DDD - "harpsichord"
*Angela Hewitt - 28 August - 1 September 1999, Henry Wood Hall, London, Hyperion Records CDA 67305 - "piano"
* Les Violons du Roy - Transcription for string orchestra - September 1999 - 1 CD Dorian - Saint-Irénée, Québec, Canada
*Amati String Trio - December 1999 Middelburg Synagogue, The Netherlands Columns Classics 99564 - DDD - "string"
*Murray Perahia - July 2000 Sony Classical SK/SM 89243 - DDD - "piano"
* Władysław Kłosiewicz - 2000 - Accord ACD 081-2 - "harpsichord"
* Jacques Loussier Trio - 2000 - Telarc CD-83479 - DDD - "jazz trio"
*Celine Frisch - 2001 Alpha 14 (2 CDs) - withBWV 1087 - "harpsichord"
*Wolfgang Dimetrik - 2001 amphion records 20126 - DDD - "accordion"
*Francesco Tristano Schlimé - 2001 - Accord ACD 098 - withBWV 622 - "piano"
*Ramin Bahrami - February 2002, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH) - Decca 476 282 - DDD - "piano"
*Jill Crossland - 2003 Apex (Warner Classics) 0927 49979 2 - DDD - "piano"
*Pierre Hantaï - 2003 - Mirare MIR 9945 - DDD - "harpsichord"
*Martin Stadtfeld - March 2004 - Sony BMG SK93101 - DDD - "piano"
* Mika Väyrynen - 2004 - ALBA - ABCD 191 - "accordion"
* Catherine Ennis - 2004 - Mollterz ' "organ"
*Jenő Jandó - 2005 Naxos 8.557268 - DDD - "piano"
* Gaede Trio - 2005 - Tacet 070CD (2 CD) - DDD - "string trio"
*Richard Egarr - 8-11 March 2005 Harmonia Mundi HMU 907425.26 - with BWV 1087 - DDD - "harpsichord"
*Pius Cheung - 2006 - MPC - "marimba"
*Simone Dinnerstein - 2007 - Telarc CD-80692 - DDD - "piano"----Without recording date - To be inserted in the first list
*Joerg Demus - mid 1950's - Westminster WL 5241 - "piano"
*Ito Ema - MA Recordings M024A
**Billed as the premier audiophile recording of the Variations, recorded with handmade microphones and independent circuitry for simultaneous digital and analog recordings.Footnotes
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