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Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, The English Patient, Captain Fantastic, Before Sunrise, and Solaris are just a few films to have featured Bach's Goldberg Variations.
"Counterpoint passes back and forth between the hands in a conversational and judiciously balanced manner, while a strong lyrical impulse informs the cross-handed variations' rapid, bravura passages (Vars 5 and 19, for example). Ishizaka's restrained and concentrated way with slow minor-key variations (Vars 15,21 and 25) lets the music's agonising harmonic tension speak softly for itself."
- Jed Distler, Gramophone Magazine
"She has the fleet fingers to speed through the virtuoso variations with compelling clarity and the sensitivity to probe the dramatic potential of the slower, more profound numbers, pleasurably aided by her consistently lovely tone."
- Robert Schulslaper, Issue 36:1 (Sept/Oct 2012), Fanfare Magazine
"The sound quality of the recording is top notch"
"In fact, the album's an audiophile gem."
- Reviewed by Christopher Lim in The Business Times, July 20, 2012.
J.S. Bach's "Goldberg Variations", BWV 988, recorded by Kimiko Ishizaka on a Bösendorfer grand piano, with score following provided by the iPad app from MuseScore. For more information on this project, see www.opengoldbergvariations.org
0:00 Aria
5:00 Variation 1
6:57 Variation 2
9:03 Variation 3
11:00 Variation 4
12:10 Variation 5
13:44 Variation 6
15:22 Variation 7
17:35 Variation 8
19:31 Variation 9
21:38 Variation 10
23:24 Variation 11
25:33 Variation 12
27:49 Variation 13
32:04 Variation 14
34:20 Variation 15
38:54 Variation 16 "Ouverture"
42:03 Variation 17
43:47 Variation 18
45:37 Variation 19
47:03 Variation 20
49:08 Variation 21
53:02 Variation 22
54:36 Variation 23
56:55 Variation 24
59:41 Variation 25 ("Black Pearl" - slideshow)
1:09:01 Variation 26
1:11:03 Variation 27
1:12:55 Variation 28
1:15:20 Variation 29
1:17:30 Variation 30 "Quodlibet"
1:19:32 Aria da Capo
Download: kimikoishizaka.bandcamp.com/
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