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Lang Lang plays Bach’s Goldberg Variations in Miami’s Arsht Center

Lang Lang’s followers turned out in numbers for this recital, clearly more enthused by the artist than by the music. As he has in other venues, Lang Lang prefaced the Goldbergs with Schumann’s Arabeske. In the opening bars, the grace notes were quite distinctly articulated, disrupting the flow of the recurring theme, and Schumann’s numerous ritardandos were consistently exaggerated. The first …

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Lang Lang plays the Goldberg Variations (also Robert Schumann Arabesque in C major, Op 18) in the Barbican Hall on Friday 10 December 2021. Photo by Mark Allan

Lang Lang plays the Goldberg Variations at Barbican Hall

J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations has figured prominently in Lang Lang’s life over the past two years, with his DG album of two performances (one live, one studio) out earlier this year, and the work itself was the point of a tour – including a Barbican recital scheduled for last year, Covid-scuppered. What a difference a …

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Lang Lang records the Goldberg Variations [studio recording on Deutsche Grammophon]

Lang Lang has had more than his fair share of lockdown. As well as the past twelve months of Covid, he was also afflicted by tendonitis in 2017, which put him out of action for more than a year. There was a period when he was able to perform Bach’s Goldberg Variations in public and …

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