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Gilded Goldbergs, Op 86
composer
1992/7
composer
Recordings
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Details
Part 1. 1st Set No 1. Aria: G major
Part 1. 1st Set No 2. Variation 1: Expanding the theme. G
Part 1. 1st Set No 3. Variation 2: Simple tonal cubism. G-D
Part 1. 1st Set No 4. Variation 3: Canon at the unison. G
Part 1. 1st Set No 5. Variation 4: Simply through some keys. G-G
Part 1. 2nd Set No 1. Variation 5: Vivace à la Scarlatti. C
Part 1. 2nd Set No 2. Variation 6: Canon at the second. C-A flat
Part 1. 2nd Set No 3. Variation 7: Gigue in antiphony. A flat/C
Part 1. 2nd Set No 4. Variation 8: Enhanced replay of Variation 1. G
Part 1. 2nd Set No 5. Variation 9: Canon at the third. Homage to Grainger. E flat
Part 1. 2nd Set No 6. Variation 10: 'Robust and a bit gormless'. Wrong-note music. B
Part 1. 2nd Set No 7. Variation 11: Dreaming. Homage to Schubert and Brahms. G
Part 1. 3rd Set No 1. Variation 12: Canon at the fourth. E
Part 1. 3rd Set No 2. Variation 13: Cantilena 1. Double variation with homage to Dowland. G/E flat minor
Part 1. 3rd Set No 3. Variation 14: Energico. A flat minor
Part 1. 3rd Set No 4. Variation 15: Canon at the fifth. G minor
Part 2. 4th Set No 1. Variation 16: French Overture and homage to Nancarrow. G sharp minor
Part 2. 4th Set No 2. Variation 17: Hungarian cymbalom. Homage to Bartók, Ligeti, Kurtág – Doïna – Homage to Enescu. E minor
Part 2. 4th Set No 3. Variation 18: Canon in sixths. D flat
Part 2. 4th Set No 4. Variation 19: Ländler and trio 'Brief history of Austro-German music in triple time'. B flat
Part 2. 4th Set No 5. Variation 20: Vivace con brio. D
Part 2. 4th Set No 6. Variation 21: Canon at the seventh. G minor
Part 2. 4th Set No 7. Variation 22: Churchy counterpoint in antiphony. A flat
Part 2. 4th Set No 8. Variation 23: Diatonic scrunches 'Homage to Tippett'. F
Part 2. 5th Set No 1. Variation 24: Canon at the octave. Complex journey through some keys. G/G minor-B flat
Part 2. 5th Set No 2. Variation 25: Cantilena 2. G minor
Part 2. 5th Set No 3. Variation 26a: Sarabande. G
Part 2. 5th Set No 4. Variation 26b: Sarabande resumed – Rückblick – Homage to Schumann. A major/A minor
Part 2. 5th Set No 5. Variation 27: 'Trio' – Canon at the ninth. F
Part 2. 5th Set No 6. Variation 28: 'Summer afternoon'. Hazy trills and tremolos. G
Part 2. 5th Set No 7. Variation 29: Toccata with clusters. F sharp
Part 2. 5th Set No 8. Variation 30: Quodlibet. Traversing all twelve keys, ending D
Part 2. 5th Set No 9. Aria da capo: G
Part 1 2nd Set No 1 Variation 5: Vivace à la Scarlatti. C
Artists
ISRC
GB-AJY-02-36006
Duration
0'50
Recording date
4 June 2002
Recording venue
Henry Wood Hall, London, United Kingdom
Recording producer
Martin Compton
Recording engineer
Ken Blair
Hyperion usage
-
Holloway: Gilded Goldbergs (CDA67360)
Disc 1 Track 6
Release date: November 2002
Deletion date: April 2013
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