Imogen Cooper Music Trust presents Cristian Sandrin, piano recital at Online event, London on Sunday 20th June 2021

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Imogen Cooper Music Trust presents Cristian Sandrin, piano recital

Add to my Calendar 20-06-2021 16:00 20-06-2021 18:00 36 Imogen Cooper Music Trust presents Cristian Sandrin, piano recital Cristian Sandrin performs J.S. Bach's monumental Goldberg Variations live from 30 Pavilion Road, Knightsbridge. The broadcast will begin on 20th Jun 2021 4:00pm (BST) with on-demand video available for 30 days after the show. The programme is Johann Sebastian BACH (1685–1750) The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 (1741)  J.S. Bach was born in Eisenach, Saxony, in present-day north Germany. His father and all his uncles were professional musicians so the boy was steeped in the works of the great composers and trained to achieve high standards of performance. Not that the family's dedication to music was entirely solemn. The Bach household was well known for its reunions with bawdy sing-songs and boistrous, impromptu music-making.  Bach composed the Goldberg Variations BWV988 in 1741 at the height of his fame when he was living in Leipzig and employed by the royal court of Poland and the electoral court of Saxony as well as being Kapellmeister and Director of Choral Music in the city. The Variations were commissioned by Count von Keyserling, the Russian ambassador to the electoral court of Saxony, to be performed by his personal harpsichordist, a young virtuoso named Johann Gottlieb Goldberg. The unfortunate Count was an insomniac and Goldberg, who was in his service, was instructed to sleep in an anteroom and play music both calming and lively to cheer up his master's sleepless nights. Bach proposed the Variations and was handsomely rewarded for his efforts. Notoriously difficult to play, the work is regarded as a towering keyboard masterpiece. Following an opening Aria there are 30 variations, some unhurried and serene as befits a lullaby and others exuberant and brilliant. The 30th variation is a Quodlibet, a traditional musical form combining a mixture of popular tunes. This light-hearted parting joke includes two folk songs whose titles translate as, 'I have so long been away from you, come closer, come closer' and 'Cabbage and turnips have driven me away, had my mother cooked meat, I'd have opted to stay'. The work ends sublimely with a note-by-note repeat of the opening Aria. Bach never lived or travelled beyond the land of his birth, yet his compositions are enjoyed and revered by music-lovers the world over. Online event, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Online event

London
England

Sunday 20th June 2021
4:00 PM

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Performers

Cristian Sandrin – piano

Programme Note

Cristian Sandrin performs J.S. Bach's monumental Goldberg Variations live from 30 Pavilion Road, Knightsbridge.

The broadcast will begin on 20th Jun 2021 4:00pm (BST) with on-demand video available for 30 days after the show.

The programme is Johann Sebastian BACH (1685–1750) The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 (1741)

J.S. Bach was born in Eisenach, Saxony, in present-day north Germany. His father and all his uncles were professional musicians so the boy was steeped in the works of the great composers and trained to achieve high standards of performance. Not that the family's dedication to music was entirely solemn. The Bach household was well known for its reunions with bawdy sing-songs and boistrous, impromptu music-making.

Bach composed the Goldberg Variations BWV988 in 1741 at the height of his fame when he was living in Leipzig and employed by the royal court of Poland and the electoral court of Saxony as well as being Kapellmeister and Director of Choral Music in the city. The Variations were commissioned by Count von Keyserling, the Russian ambassador to the electoral court of Saxony, to be performed by his personal harpsichordist, a young virtuoso named Johann Gottlieb Goldberg. The unfortunate Count was an insomniac and Goldberg, who was in his service, was instructed to sleep in an anteroom and play music both calming and lively to cheer up his master's sleepless nights. Bach proposed the Variations and was handsomely rewarded for his efforts. Notoriously difficult to play, the work is regarded as a towering keyboard masterpiece.

Following an opening Aria there are 30 variations, some unhurried and serene as befits a lullaby and others exuberant and brilliant. The 30th variation is a Quodlibet, a traditional musical form combining a mixture of popular tunes. This light-hearted parting joke includes two folk songs whose titles translate as, 'I have so long been away from you, come closer, come closer' and 'Cabbage and turnips have driven me away, had my mother cooked meat, I'd have opted to stay'. The work ends sublimely with a note-by-note repeat of the opening Aria. Bach never lived or travelled beyond the land of his birth, yet his compositions are enjoyed and revered by music-lovers the world over.

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