Pianist Yunchan Lim is on fire. Just 20 years old and still in studies at the New England Conservatory, he is the youngest-ever winner of the gold medal at the prestigious Van Cliburn Competition.

Pianists are measured against one another by how they handle benchmark compositions. For instance, with their rigor and accessibility, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations helped bestow master ...

Chinese pianist Lang Lang went from being just one more fresh-faced and precocious teenaged phenomenon twenty years ago with his debut recording on Telarc, Lang Lang (2001), featuring the heady ...

Owing to its Himalayan presence, Bach’s set of 30 keyboard variations is a daunting prospect for any recording artist. Lindsay Kemp speaks to Lang Lang – whose first recording of the work has just ...

J.S. Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” begins with a song, an aria, which is wistful, haunting, beyond beautiful. It’s all right there in the notes. Yet the pianist Simone Dinnerstein does something very ...

It is being released on Deutsche Grammophon today in two complementary performances given by the pianist. The first was recorded in a single take in concert at the legendary St. Thomas Church in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It seems to be open season for recordings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. There have been new recordings ...

Count Keyserlingk, the insomniac Russian ambassador to the Kingdom of Saxony for whom Johann Sebastian Bach may have written the Goldberg Variations, supposedly rewarded the composer with a golden ...

With a backdrop of stacked lumber at the Steinway Factory in New York, Teicher's stage is a nothing more than a pair of wooden pallets. In Bach's opening "Aria," Teicher taps lightly. After all, the ...