Beatrice Rana - Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (2017)

For her second Warner Classics release, young Italian pianist Beatrice Rana turns to a pinnacle of the solo keyboard repertoire and a composer she has described as “my first love”: Johann Sebastian Bach. Her interpretation of his epic Goldberg Variations bears out Le Monde’s judgement that “Beatrice Rana certainly has nothing left to prove when it comes to technique, but what makes an impression are her calm maturity and her sense of architecture,” and Gramophone’s that she is “a fully developed artist of a stature that belies her tender years.” Bach was the composer who most obsessed Beatrice Rana as a child, and in a recent interview with Pianist magazine, she confessed that it would be his music, and above all the Goldberg Variations, that she would choose if she had to devote her life to a single composer. As she said: “I’m very happy to be going back to Bach … It’s best to avoid Bach in competitions … you can’t expose yourself to be totally killed by the jury! But Bach is my first love; now I am allowed to play it in public and I’m really looking forward to that.”

TRACKLIST

01. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria
02. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 1 à 1 clav
03. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 2 à 1 clav
04. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 3 Canone all Unisuono à 1 clav.
05. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 4 à 1 clav.
06. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 5 à 1 o vero 2 clav
07. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 6 Canone alla seconda à 1 clav.
08. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 7 à 1 o vero 2 clav.
09. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 8 à 2 clav.
10. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 9 Canone alla terza à 2 clav.
11. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 10 Fughetta à 1 clav.
12. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 11 à 2 clav.
13. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 12 Canone alla quarta
14. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 13 à 2 clav.
15. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 14 à 2 clav.
16. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 15 Canone alla Quinta à 1 clav.
17. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 16 à 1 clav. Ouvertura
18. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 17 à 2 clav.
19. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 18 Canone alla sexta à 1 clav.
20. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 19 à 1 clav.
21. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 20 à 2 clav.
22. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 21 canone alla settima à 1 clav.
23. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 22 à 1 clav. alla breve
24. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 23 à 2 clav.
25. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 24 Canone alla Ottava à 1 clav.
26. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 25 à 2 clav.
27. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 26 à 2 clav.
28. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 27 Canone alla Nona à 2 clav.
29. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 28 à 1 clav.
30. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 29 à 1 o vero 2 clav.
31. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 30 à 1 clav. Quodlibet
32. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria da capo e fine