Beatrice Rana explains Bach's Goldberg Variations BWV 988

Have barely stopped listening to this new recording since it came out. It is exceptional in quality and execution. What a great pianist and musician!

She is not only a great & lovely pianist, but she explains the composition art of Bach very well. Chapeau! :-)

Probably one of the greatest musician's with us today.

She is the pianist I have always hoped I would see and hear in my lifetime. Her playing is full of expression and technical brilliance without the dramatic rolling about and distorted facial expressions so beloved of (dare I say) less competent performers. All her energy and concentration goes into the finger ends with sublime results making pedals almost superfluous. Thank you, Miss Rana.

I listened to the album for the first time this past week. I loved it! The performance and piano sound is superb.

Wonderful. Listened to her earlier performance of the GV during a summer festival in Canada, and glad the CD is out.

This recording is to me a reveleation of this great composition by Bach. I have heard recordings of several accomplisched pianists play this piece beginning with Glen Gould, Murray Perrahia, Rosalyn Turek, Angela Hewit, Bruno canino Lang Lang etc. I saw this in Amazon Music and was thinking how can such a young Pianist bring out the music in these notes better than these old Stallwarts. I had recently watched Rana play parts of Bachs French Suits in arte TV live and was not that impressed with it because I had the playing of Glen Gould in my mind. So I thought I will just hear how she plays the Aria. Wow! how transparent, clear, balanced the different lines of music there. Precision! no hint of affectation! I cannot stop at the Aria! How brilliantly she plays the quick variations with what subtility and softness the slower ones! How she gives space and dimentions to the music! How she creates such beauty and freshness out of these notes of music without the sligtest trace of artificial virtuosity . Simply Amazing. I have an Amazon Music Abonnement but I must have this CD! Thank You Beatrice Rana!

Im really keen on her version Aria n°1. Thank you very much Beatrice Rana.

What I've heard so far is really good.

Grazie Beatrice per queste ottime spiegazioni. Io vivo tra Bruxelles, Parigi e Roma. Non è che hai previsto di fare un concerto in una di queste 3 città per caso? Un saluto, JL

Ciao Beatrice ho sentito proprio oggi alla telegiornale di oggi come suoni molto bene il pianoforte . Complimenti anche dalla mia famiglia.Ciao Rita

Love the cross over of hands, yes, indeed....pedal should be used more, yes..
Fantastic musician!!!!!

Ciao Beatrice Rana sono contenta che tu mi abbia risposto. Ma tu ami tantissimo suonare il pianoforte ? Rita

A mark of civilisation. Keep going Beatrice. We follow you and your efforts. Thank you.

When she stops playing the 5th variation it hurts....

1:16

"We don't know why it is called Goldberg variations...". We actually do know. It is well documented....

So, it's called the Goldberg variations because it was written for a dude named Goldberg to play for his Lord or whatever to sleep. Bach was payed a cup of gold or silver for it

More pedal please. More and more. Lol

What no one has managed to do since 1742 she is not going to accomplish in 5 minutes……

Yet another pianist influenced by Glenn Gould... (even Martha Argerich, just listen to her Bach’s 2nd partita performance and compare it with Gould’s one)