Anthony Brandt, a musicologist whose work focuses on music cognition, talks about what this musical form and how human beings ...

Pianists are measured against one another by how they handle benchmark compositions. For instance, with their rigor and accessibility, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations helped bestow master ...

The 21-year-old pianist gives a fine, muscular account of the Goldbergs, with touches of playfulness, in this live recording from Carnegie Hall ...

Today's Video of the Day is a performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations, Variation 15 by Yunchan Lim from his Carnegie Hall ...

Chinese pianist Lang Lang went from being just one more fresh-faced and precocious teenaged phenomenon twenty years ago with his debut recording on Telarc, Lang Lang (2001), featuring the heady ...

Professional percussionists Katalin La Favre and Brian Calhoon have created an innovative way to perform Bach’s “Goldberg Variations.” They’re using two vibraphones, a refurbished antique glockenspiel ...

Pianist Yunchan Lim is on fire. Just 20 years old and still in studies at the New England Conservatory, he is the youngest-ever winner of the gold medal at the prestigious Van Cliburn Competition.

Pianist Lim Yun-chan isn't sure whether his interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach’s "Goldberg Variations" might change in ...

Just as Miles Davis' Kind of Blue was one of those jazz albums you saw in the collections of people who otherwise didn't listen to jazz, Glenn Gould's 1955 LP of Bach's Goldberg Variations stuck out ...

Only a musician of intrepid character attempts Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations. One of the summits of the keyboard repertoire, this sublime collection of theme and 30 variations teems with ...

It is being released on Deutsche Grammophon today in two complementary performances given by the pianist. The first was recorded in a single take in concert at the legendary St. Thomas Church in ...