Organ evenings in Kuskovo. “Goldberg Variations”
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On December 17 at 3 pm, one of the pinnacles of Johann Sebastian Bach’s clavier art, Goldberg Variations (Aria with Various Variations, BWV 988), will be performed in the Large Stone Orangery of the Kuskovo Museum-Estate.
The cycle was published as the fourth part of the Clavier Exercises in 1741 by Bach’s publisher and friend Balthasar Schmid in Nuremberg. The Variations were commissioned by Baron Hermann Karl von Keyserling and took their name from the young virtuoso Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, Keyserling’s personal harpsichordist, who performed variations for the Baron. Earlier, in the 30s of the 18th century, a connoisseur of the arts, the baron, who was the Russian envoy in Dresden and was at the head of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, procured for Bach the position of court bandmaster. The composer composed his own variations as a musical offering to the benefactor.
But if in the time of Bach this composition was considered as an exercise, then in the 20th century the brilliant work of the great composer received worldwide recognition. A lot of musicological research is devoted to this bewitching, mysterious, symbolic work, the best pianists, harpsichordists and organists of the world have included it in their repertoire, offering their own interpretation of the musical material.
Alexey Shevchenko is an organist, pianist, performer on historical keyboard instruments: harpsichord, hammer clavier, romantic piano and clavichord. In 2005 he made his debut as a soloist with the Russian National Orchestra. As part of the orchestra “Soloists of Catherine the Great” he took part in the world premiere of I. Mattheson’s opera “Boris Godunov” (Hamburg, Moscow, 2007), performs with the baroque chapel “Golden Age”. Shevchenko teaches ancient keyboard instruments at the faculty Moscow Conservatory.
Message Organ evenings in Kuskovo. “Goldberg Variations” first appeared on Moscow truth.
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