Episode #3042
Theme & Variations - Goldberg Variations
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
From a Satie-influenced piano solo to electronics to a large jazz-based ensemble, Bach’s celebrated variations are themselves varied for this New Sounds program. We’ll hear some varations adapted almost beyond recognition, by composers like Derek Bermel, David Del Tredici, and Uri Caine. Listen to a version arranged by Karlheinz Essl for string trio with electronic manipulation of the instruments along with Derek Bermel's funky Kontraphunktus. Plus, excerpts from the playful Uri Caine arrangements of the Goldbergs, which travel forward and backward in time with gamba quartet and lute all the way up to minimalism and turntables. Caine's epic 2-CD set is also gleefully heedless of genre, swinging from spoken word and DJ Logic's turntables to jazz and tango, baroque meeting gospel, and veering into Afro-Cuban rhythms and soulful blues. All that and more.
PROGRAM # 3042, Theme & Variations: Bach’s Goldbergs Variations (First aired on Wed., 02/24/10)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Sachiko Kato |
Live at the Phoenix Hall |
13 Ways of Looking at the Goldberg (2007)- Bach: Aria, from Goldberg Variations BWV 988 [2:15] |
2009 CD, see www.sachikokato.com for availability. |
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Karlheinz Essl |
Gold.Berg.Werk |
GoldBergWerk - Aria Electronic [4:12] |
Preiser Records PR907538 www.preiserrecords.at OR download from www.essl.at |
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Uri Caine |
Goldberg |
Carol Variation [2:35] |
Winter & Winter 910054 www.winterandwinter.com |
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Jacques Loussier Trio |
Bach’s Goldberg Varitations |
Variation 3 [1:24] Aria, excerpt |
Telarc 83479 |
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Comments [1]
I enjoyed the program which introduced me to the unfamiliar work of Karlheinz Essl.
One factual error -- 13 Ways of Looking at the Goldberg were commissioned by the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival for pianist Gilbert Kalish, who gave the first performance at the Festival on May 2, 2004 in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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