Bach - Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Bach - Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Pianist Nicolás Margarit performs J. S. Bach’s celebrated Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 at Auditorio Sony of the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, Spain. The work consists of one aria, followed by a set of thirty variations. Rather than writing variations on the aria’s melody, Bach took the aria’s bass line and chord progression as his starting point. The composition is named after German harpsichordist Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, who might have been the first to have performed the work. This recital was recorded on July 7, 2021.