A feature of Jeremy Denk's
work as a pianist – a blisteringly original, thoughtful one at that –
is his parallel skill at writing about music. In this unrushed,
transparent, unmannered account of the Goldbergs, he provides an
invaluable DVD of "video" programme notes,
a bonus for anyone still trying to comprehend these variations, which I
suspect is all of us. With unvarnished honesty Denk has said: "The best
reason to hate the Goldberg Variations – aside from the obvious reason
that everyone asks you all the time which of the two [Glenn Gould]
recordings you prefer – is that everybody loves them… I worried for
years that I would be seduced into playing them, and would become like
all the others – besotted, cultish – and that is exactly what happened."
This CD is another to cherish in the huge catalogue of Goldberg
recordings. (FionaMaddocks / The Guardian)A feature of Jeremy Denk's
work as a pianist – a blisteringly original, thoughtful one at that –
is his parallel skill at writing about music. In this unrushed,
transparent, unmannered account of the Goldbergs, he provides an
invaluable DVD of "video" programme notes,
a bonus for anyone still trying to comprehend these variations, which I
suspect is all of us. With unvarnished honesty Denk has said: "The best
reason to hate the Goldberg Variations – aside from the obvious reason
that everyone asks you all the time which of the two [Glenn Gould]
recordings you prefer – is that everybody loves them… I worried for
years that I would be seduced into playing them, and would become like
all the others – besotted, cultish – and that is exactly what happened."
This CD is another to cherish in the huge catalogue of Goldberg
recordings. (FionaMaddocks / The Guardian)
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