Name: Piano Recital David Fray
Start: 2024-07-29T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-07-29T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Eglise de Verbier

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Verbier Festival

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David Fray

Piano

Piano Recital David Fray

Bagnes

Switzerland

Eglise de Verbier

Piano Recital David Fray: Goldberg Variations BWV 988 Bach, Johann Sebastian

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Goldberg Variations BWV 988

Akshay C K

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Bach’s Goldberg Variations owe their nickname to a legend that they were written for his young pupil, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, to play at night to his insomniac aristocratic employer. Yet when Bach published them in 1741 it was under the title, ‘Aria with diverse variations for the harpsichord with two manuals,’ and certainly it’s lyricism, structure and invention that are the stars of the show: a symmetrical 32-movement work beginning and ending with the same peaceful, delicately ornamented 32 bar aria, itself divided into two 16-bar halves, whose bass line provides the material for the intervening 30 variations; the two fugues, nos 10 and 22, each sitting six variations from the centre; every third variation a canon (multiple overlapping imitative entries); stylistic diversity including No. 7’s gigue, the grand French overture of No. 16, and ‘Black Pearl’ No. 25; and not a single forced moment across around an hour’s worth of music.

English

Les Variations Goldberg doivent leur surnom à la légende selon laquelle Bach les aurait écrites pour que son jeune élève Johann Gottlieb Goldberg les joue la nuit à son employeur, un aristocrate insomniaque. Bach les avait cependant publiées en 1741 sous le titre « Aria avec diverses variations pour le clavecin à deux claviers ». Le lyrisme, la construction et l’inventivité y sont à l’honneur : les 32 mouvements commencent et se terminent par la même aria de 32 mesures, paisible et délicatement ornée ; aria elle-même divisée en deux parties de 16 mesures, dont la basse fournit le matériau des 30 variations intermédiaires. Les fugues 10 et 22 sont chacune situées à six variations de distance du centre de la partition, une variation sur trois est un canon. Cette diversité stylistique inclut la gigue du N° 7, la grande ouverture française du N° 16 et la « perle noire » du N° 25. Et pas un seul moment laborieux sur près d’une heure de musique.

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Piano Recital David Fray by Bach, J. S., Mon 29 Jul 2024, From (2024/2024), Eglise de Verbier, Bagnes, Switzerland

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