Bach - Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, for String Trio, arr. Sitkovetsky; Camerata Pacifica 

Thank you Michael! We appreciate your comment and hope you stay tuned for more Bach programming to come!

Thanks for your comment, Frank! Glad you enjoyed this performance as much as we do.

@@CamerataPacifica Watching again. I love the piano version, especially by Angela Hewitt. Howver, aa wonderful as the piano is, it cannot compere with the textures portrayed by a superb string trio. This time with scotch and ice. More please! Also love your Smetana piano trio.

🤣"if not fiendishly difficult"🤣

"Piano" version?! Do you mean "harpsichord"? There were no pianos in Bach's times.

@@graziacavasino8884 Clearly he has in mind the modern keyboard exponents of this work, such as Glenn Gould, Yudina, Koroliov and so many others who recorded these on piano. In fact, the piano is truly a tonal expansion, and this version yet further expanded. (Who could imagine Michelangeli recording, or even playing, Beethoven's last 1820 Broadwood piano? The Defense rests.) Bach gives himself to that, historically iinformed be canned. [Perhaps "Klavier" in that sense. Jawohl. Bach was a seer, by ear, and wrote for an open-ended "time." The flexibilty of the over-arching design of his 'oeuvre' is inherent proof that he can envision boundless forms for it. Not that many exponents adapt it to piano (my instrument) without some loss of different kinds in the newer contexts, but just like the gripes we always about much modern forms, the point is not to do them less, just better. As good as Glenn Gould can often be, there are so many of his flourishes and personal touches that he puts to Bach, that seldom do I find there isn't room, even often lots, for improvement, or better nuance. But that is the glory and the spur of interpretation, to hear more, see more. Really, we all grow spiritually and emotionally, and above all, musically (lol) when we listen with passionate participation in the whole process of making the music, as companion listeners. In my early days of playing. I used to get so wound up by not yet having technique to play some of these, yet. Years later, I realized in hindsight that some of my best 'playing' had been just listening that intensely in those days before I could play as well. I was, if you'll excuse the most horrific pun in the history of music, ....playing by ear. Go figure. [By the way, kudos to the tremendous gifts of all 3 players here. After listening a number of times, I am "jazzed" by the sublimity in all three instruments and interpretations. Here I had almost closed the book on most modern recordings, most just crazy as bugs in tempi choices, as I had heard, when I came across Camerata Pacifica. This shows the poetic regard of the Bach of my youth: Milstein, Menuhin, Heifetz, Oistrakhs' et al. Those aren't old-fashioned or 'traditional' or, eek, "historically uninformed" values. They're BACH values. 🤣🤕😎😱👌!

Yeah I'm looking at these 20 dislikes and I'm just like...how?

Totally lovely in every way. I know I'm impressed!

Thanks for your comment, John! Very insightful.

Gracias por escuchando, Miguel!

Very insightful comment, Ryo. We are glad you enjoyed it.

Our pleasure! Thanks for listening, Lee.

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Lovely, lovely tone(s), all 3

V14: 27:04

V28: 48:39