Nick Van Bloss - Bach: Goldberg Variations (2011)

Tracklist

01. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria
02. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 1
03. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 2
04. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 3
05. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 4
06. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 5
07. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 6
08. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 7
09. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 8
10. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 9
11. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 10
12. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 11
13. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 12
14. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 13
15. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 14
16. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 15
17. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 16
18. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 17
19. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 18
20. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 19
21. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 20
22. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 21
23. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 22
24. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 23
25. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 24
26. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 25
27. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 26
28. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 27
29. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 28
30. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 29
31. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 30
32. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria da capo



This recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations marks van Bloss’s first venture back into professional life since his retirement. Of his playing, Michael Haas says that “in polyphonic music, such as Bach, Nick offers a superhuman degree of precision and individuality with each voice, while never losing overall transparency,” and who feels that van Bloss’s Chopin and Rachmaninov are characterised by a “crystalline solidity” which enables him to build and shape works with total security and “achieve a nearperfect balance between vibrancy of keyboard playing and sweep of musical vision.”

In April 2009, van Bloss made a ‘comeback’ concert at London’s Cadogan Hall, playing a concerto by Bach and Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto with the English Chamber Orchestra. The concert, uniformly reviewed as a ‘Triumph’ by London’s critics, attracted massive media interest from all over the world.

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