Bach Gothenburg Variations Playing Style And Audio Version Comparison

Johann Sebastian Bach's piano works organically integrate science and poetry,technology and emotion,music and life into together,and whose brilliant playing skills and noble musical thoughts are unparalleled in the world.Goldberg Variations,a largescale partita,is a representative piece of Bach's late keyboard works,which is composed of 32 sections,and after 30 Variations,the first one comes back to the theme again.I picked four playing versions of this partita in this article,which respectively played by Glenn Gould,Rosalie Tourek,Andras Schiffer and Zhu Xiaomei,four famous pianists from different times,nations and cultural backgrounds.According to listening,analyzing and studying this piano composition about its speed,ornament,touching sense and the playing style,I will continue to absorb its essence,get an indepth study and finally have a good master of the Goldberg Variations' playing.