We just discovered a great site about Bach's Goldberg Variations. It includes commentary and analysis about the piece from many well-known interpreters of Bach's music and interesting information about the piece, its history, and its performance styles. This work is one of the greatest keyboard pieces, consisting of a slow, highly ornamented theme (called the Aria) and followed by thirty variations. Every third variation is a canon, and each canon's voices are offset at increasing intervals (for example the first canon is at a unison, the second cannon is at the interval of a second, and so forth). The variations all are highly unique in character, and many of them are incredibly virtuosic. If you want to find out more about this marvelous work, click here: http://www.thegoldbergvariations.com.
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