Catégorie : Mood notes

• The Goldbergs make me sad

  

  Quite recently, harpsichordist Julien Wolfs brought out a fabulous version of the Goldberg Variations. It was totally refined, beautifully expressive, full of arpeggios, so essential that ornamentation would have seemed superfluous. But listening to it recently I realised – again, in fact – one thing: the Goldberg Variations make me sad. I’m not saying there’s…

  Guilhem Chameyrat

  18 mars 2026

  Mood notes, Reviews

  Bach, Blandine Rannou, Blandine Verlet, Ekaterina Derzhavina, Glenn Gould, Goldberg Variations, Gustav Leonhardt, Julien Wolfs, Selected discography