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Goldberg Variations, BWV 988Johann Sebastian Bach 12 movements45:37
1. 1 Aria 2:51
2. 2 Variation 1, Variation 2, Variation 3 Canone all’Unisuono 3:20
3. 3 Variation 4, Variation 5, Variation 6 Canone alla Seconda 2:09
4. 4 Variation 7 al tempo di Giga, Variation 8, Variation 9 Canone alla Terza 2:51
5. 5 Variation 10 Fughetta, Variation 11, Variation 12 Canone alla Quarta 3:14
6. 6 Variation 13, Variation 14, Variation 15 Canone alla Quinta, Andante 7:16
7. 7 Variation 16 Ouverture, Variation 17, Variation 18 Canone alla Sesta 3:26
8. 8 Variation 19, Variation 20, Variation 21 Canone alla Settima 3:21
9. 9 Variation 22 Alla breve, Variation 23, Variation 24 Canone all’Ottava 3:24
10. 10 Variation 25 Adagio, Variation 26, Variation 27 Canone alla Nona 7:21
11. 11 Variation 28, Variation 29, Variation 30 Quodlibet 3:24
12. 12 Aria da capo 3:00
13 St Matthew Passion, BWV 244 Johann Sebastian Bach Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben 7:17
14 St John Passion, BWV 245 Johann Sebastian Bach Es ist vollbracht! 5:22
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, BWV 1048Johann Sebastian Bach 2 movements9:46
1. 15 i. (Allegro) 6:35
2. 16 ii. Adagio, iii. Allegro 3:11

The programme opens with Bach’s monumental Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, given complete on the modern piano.

Roberts then offers his own intimate transcriptions of two Passion arias — Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben from the St Matthew Passion, BWV 244, and Es ist vollbracht! from the St John Passion, BWV 245 — before closing with a virtuosic piano transcription of Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, BWV 1048.

In the artist’s words

Technicalities aside, it is my wish to have translated and shared the richness of the experience of Bach’s great music.

— Cameron Roberts

Reviews

Exemplary Bach … High calibre playing … A significant talent … Highly developed technical facility … impressive insight … high level of musicianship

— Clive O’Connell, The Age

Roberts’ thought-provoking Goldbergs…with the pivotal 25th variation sensitively given

— Limelight Magazine

Artists

Cameron Roberts

piano

Cameron Roberts is an Australian international concert pianist, renowned coach and author on the application of science to elite musical performance, and a specialist anaesthetist.

Johann Sebastian Bach

composer

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was a German composer and organist of the late Baroque. His sacred and secular music for choir, orchestra, organ and solo instruments remains among the foundations of the Western concert and church repertory.