ExclusiveBach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 - 04 - Variatio 3 a 1 Clav. Canone all Unisuono

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 - 04 - Variatio 3 a 1 Clav. Canone all Unisuono. This beautiful piece was played by Kimiko Ishizaka. It has Creative Commons license (PDM 1.0 DEED, Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

Rather unusually for Bach's works, the Goldberg Variations were published during his lifetime, in 1741. The publisher was Bach's friend Balthasar Schmid of Nuremberg. Schmid printed the work using copperplate engraving (instead of movable type), so the notes of the first edition are in his own hand:

"Keyboard exercise, consisting of an ARIA with diverse variations for harpsichord with two manuals. Composed for connoisseurs, for the refreshment of their spirits, by Johann Sebastian Bach, composer for the royal court of Poland and the Electoral court of Saxony, Kapellmeister and Director of Choral Music in Leipzig. Nuremberg, Balthasar Schmid, publisher."

These Lily-of-the-valley were captured in our garden by Christian Schlegel. The video was edited by Wenjing Ma.







#classicalmusic, #Music, #古典音樂, #klassischemusik, #GJWexclusive, #Switzerland, #Schweiz, #Natur, #Nature, #KlassischeMusikundNatur, #ClassicalMusicAndNature, #古典音樂小站,