Goldberg Variations Part X (Amrine)

This is the last in a 10-part series of home recordings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations (BWV 988). The 30 variations on an aria are written in groups of three, and so each video contains just three variations; after the 30th variation Bach specified that the opening aria should be played again. This video contains: Variation 28 Variation 29 Variation 30 ‘Quodlibet’ Aria da Capo The 30th variation is a quodlibet, a medley of popular tunes, heard in succession or simultaneously. This breaks the pattern of the variations, in which every third variation was a canon. The harpsichord used in this video was built in 1962 by Martin Skowroneck after the 1745 Dulcken. Tuning: Jägermeister III (A = 412), an unequal temperament Harpsichordist and organist Douglas Amrine attended Stanford University and Oberlin College Conservatory, and did his post-graduate studies at the Sweelinck Conservatorium Amsterdam, where he studied with Gustav Leonhardt. He was a prizewin