Goldberg Variations

1. Aria
2. Variatio 1 a 1 clav.
3. Variatio 2 a 1 clav.
4. Variatio 3 Canone all’Unisono
5. Variatio 4 a 1 clav.
6. Variatio 5 a 1 ovvero 2 clav.
7. Variatio 6 Canone alla Seconda
8. Variatio 7 a 1 ovvero 2 clav.
9. Variatio 8 a 2 clav.
10. Variatio 9 Canone alla Terza a 1 clav.
11. Variatio 10 Fughetta a 1 clav.
12. Variatio 11 a 2 clav.
13. Variatio 12 Canone alla Quarta in moto contrario
14. Variatio 13 a 2 clav.
15. Variatio 14 a 2 clav.
16. Variatio 15 Canone alla Quinta in moto contrario a 1 clav., Andante
17. Variatio 16 Ouverture a 1 clav.
18. Variatio 17 a 2 clav.
19. Variatio 18 Canone alla Sesta a 1 clav.
20. Variatio 19 a 1 clav.
21. Variatio 20 a 2 clav.
22. Variatio 21 Canone alla Settima
23. Variatio 22 Alla breve a 1 clav.
24. Variatio 23 a 2 clav.
25. Variatio 24 Canone all’Ottava a 1 clav.
26. Variatio 25 a 2 clav.
27. Variatio 26 a 2 clav.
28. Variatio 27 Canone alla Nona
29. Variatio 28 a 2 clav.
30. Variatio 29 a 1 ovvero 2 clav.
31. Variatio 30 Quodlibet a 1 clav.
32. Aria

For her second Warner Classics release, young Italian pianist Beatrice Rana turns to a pinnacle of the solo keyboard repertoire and a composer she has described as “my first love”: Johann Sebastian Bach. Her interpretation of his epic Goldberg Variations bears out Le Monde’s judgement that “Beatrice Rana certainly has nothing left to prove when it comes to technique, but what makes an impression are her calm maturity and her sense of architecture,” and Gramophone’s that she is “a fully developed artist of a stature that belies her tender years.”

Bach was the composer who most obsessed Beatrice Rana as a child, and in a recent interview with Pianist magazine, she confessed that it would be his music, and above all the Goldberg Variations, that she would choose if she had to devote her life to a single composer. As she said: “I’m very happy to be going back to Bach … It’s best to avoid Bach in competitions … you can’t expose yourself to be totally killed by the jury! But Bach is my first love; now I am allowed to play it in public and I’m really looking forward to that.”