Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Alexandra Papastefanou
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: First Hand
Catalogue: FHR110
Release: 2021
Size: 654 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV988
01. Aria
02. Var. 1
03. Var. 2
04. Var. 3, Canone all’unisono
05. Var. 4
06. Var. 5
07. Var. 6, Canone alla seconda
08. Var. 7
09. Var. 8
10. Var. 9, Canone alla terza
11. Var. 10, Fughetta
12. Var. 11
13. Var. 12, Canone alla quarta
14. Var. 13
15. Var. 14
16. Var. 15, Canone alla quinta
17. Var. 16, Ouverture
18. Var. 17
19. Var. 18, Canone alla sesta
20. Var. 19
21. Var. 20
22. Var. 21, Canone alla settima
23. Var. 22, Alla breve
24. Var. 23
25. Var. 24, Canone all’ottava
26. Var. 25
27. Var. 26
28. Var. 27, Canone alla nona
29. Var. 28
30. Var. 29
31. Var. 30, Quodlibet
32. Aria da capo
Following on from her two previous successful First Hand Records albums of Johann Sebastian Bach, Papastefanou has now recorded one of the most iconic works in the history of music, the Goldberg Variations. This challenging, inventive masterpiece feels completely natural under Papastefanou fingers and will surely be a recording to be revered, like her previous Bach recordings for First Hand Records.
Alexandra Papstefanou graduated from Athens Conservatoire, where she studied piano under Aliki Vatikioti. She followed her studies with Olga Zhukova at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, with Peter Solymos, at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and, on a scholarship from the Alexander Onassis Foundation, at the University of Indiana in Bloomington, USA, with the highly influential teacher György Sebok. She has also taken lessons from Alfred Brendel.
She has performed all of Bach’s keyboard works and, in a series of recitals, has presented the complete Well-Tempered Clavier, Goldberg Variations, The Art of Fugue, and The Musical Offering as well as his keyboard concertos.