Event listing: Prom 50: Bach – Goldberg Variations | Royal Albert Hall | Sat 22 Aug 2015 at 22:15

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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Festival: BBC Proms

Programme

Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)

Goldberg Variations, BWV988

Performers

Sir András Schiff

Piano

Grammy Award-winning pianist Sir András Schiff is a titan of the keyboard, bringing his distinctive blend of clarity and authority to repertoire from Bach to Bartók. Tonight he continues his long association with Bach’s music in a performance of the composer’s ‘Goldberg’ Variations – a monumental work composed, according to its title-page, ‘for the refreshment of the spirits’. The resulting Aria and variations are a compositional wonder, a sequence of musical miniatures unequalled in all Bach’s output.

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