Pedro Burmester

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Pedro Burmester's brilliant return to the Goldberg Variations is like that of a wise man ready to return home. Bach's magnificent work now meets the pianist in an interpretation that can only be made by those who have matured and already traverse the musical monument in pure intuition. If anything immediately caught our attention in Burmester's gesture towards this work, it was the opening up of the tempos, a permission that led the interpreter to install truly distinct climates in the score which, being one, is necessarily a multiple object, summoning disparate canons and even contrasting states of mind. Moving on from the 1990s recording, Burmester's gesture is even less rigid, I would say fluid, with a free impetus that only those in the know can master without losing themselves. The amazement of the first recording is redoubled now. And I think the fundamental point lies in intuition, the way the work transforms itself into a body that only the best can tame. In this sense, these Variations come into Burmester's hands like an animal of affection, a lover, and they are listened to with the same passion with which someone is touched.

Valter Hugo Mãe

Programme

J. S. Bach (1685 – 1750)
Variações Goldberg BWV 988 (1741)
Aria
Variatio 1 a 1 Clav.
Variatio 2 a 1 Clav.
Variatio 3 Canone all'Unisono. a 1 Clav.
Variatio 4 a 1 Clav.
Variatio 5 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav.
Variatio 6 Canone alla Seconda. a 1 Clav.
Variatio 7 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav. Al tempo di Giga
Variatio 8 a 2 Clav.
Variatio 9 Canone alla Terza. a 1 Clav.
Variatio 10 Fughetta. a 1 Clav.
Variatio 11 a 2 Clav.
Variatio 12 Canone alla Quarta. (a 1 Clav.)
Variatio 13 a 2 Clav.
Variatio 14 a 2 Clav.
Variatio 15 Canone alla Quinta. a 1 Clav. Andante
Variatio 16 Ouverture. a 1 Clav.
Variatio 17 a 2 Clav.
Variatio 18 Canone alla Sesta. a 1 Clav.
Variatio 19 a 1 Clav.
Variatio 20 a 2 Clav.
Variatio 21 Canone alla Settima. (a 1 Clav.)
Variatio 22 a 1 Clav. Alla breve
Variatio 23 a 2 Clav.
Variatio 24 Canone all'Ottava. a 1 Clav.
Variatio 25 a 2 Clav. Adagio
Variatio 26 a 2 Clav.
Variatio 27 Canone alla Nona. a 2 Clav.
Variatio 28 a 2 Clav.Variatio 29 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav.
Variatio 30 Quodlibet. a 1 Clav.
Aria da Capo

Performers

Pedro Burmester, piano

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