[Nicolai P. Zwar]

I love Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Over the years, it’s become absolute “comfort food”, one of the greatest, most fascinating and intricate compositions ever made. Ever since I first heard it, it’s never failed to engage me. Sometimes I think if I could have only one album for the rest of my life, I might chose a recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations… it would be high up on the list in any case.
I close tonight by listening to what is certainly one of its most famous and controversial recordings, Glenn Gould’s 1955 recording. Not necessarily the one I’d pick as “the one”, but certainly one great and historically significant album recording.