Category: Piano
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Bach’s Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Bach wrote it as a sleeping pill. Gould turned it into a manifesto.
The count's insomnia legend is charming — and almost certainly invented, appearing 52 years after Bach's death. What actually changed the Goldberg Variations' fate was a 23-year-old Canadian pianist treating Bach less like a sleeping pill and more like a…
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Chopin’s Prelude in D-flat major, Op. 28 No. 15 ‘Raindrop’
Rain on a Rooftop in Majorca
Chopin denied the piece was about rain. His partner George Sand insisted he composed it in a storm-wracked monastery, half-convinced he was dying. The truth lies in five minutes of music where a single repeating note pulses like a heartbeat,…