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Johann Gottlieb Goldberg: Beyond the Variations

Chamber Music for Strings and Basso Continuo

Rebel, Jorg-Michael Schwarz

Johann Gottlieb Goldberg: Beyond the Variations
The performances from Rebel under Jörg-Michael Schwarz are nothing if not committed (Goldberg’s taut allegros are certainly intense affairs), with the violins quickly settling as natural sparring...

Johann Gottlieb Goldberg: Beyond the Variations

Chamber Music for Strings and Basso Continuo

Rebel, Jorg-Michael Schwarz

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The performances from Rebel under Jörg-Michael Schwarz are nothing if not committed (Goldberg’s taut allegros are certainly intense affairs), with the violins quickly settling as natural sparring...

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J.G. Goldberg might just be the most famous composer whose music remains largely unheard. A child prodigy, his name has become almost a household term, thanks to Bach’s masterpiece, popularly known as the “Goldberg” Variations. Goldberg did not live to see age 30, and his body of surviving works is not large-two cantatas, two harpsichord concertos, a few dozen small harpsichord pieces, and the five works presented on this recording. The music sparkles in the hands of the virtuosic baroque ensemble Rebel, hailed by the New York Times as "sophisticated and beguiling."

Contents and tracklist

I. Adagio
Track length2:07
II. Allegro
Track length2:30
III. Grave
Track length0:53
IV. Ciacona
Track length4:10
I. Adagio
Track length3:44
II. Allegro
Track length4:38
III. Tempo di menuetto
Track length3:43
I. Largo
Track length2:54
II. Allegro
Track length3:33
III. Grave
Track length1:20
IV. Giga
Track length4:58
I. Adagio
Track length2:04
II. Allegro
Track length2:05
III. Alla siciliana
Track length2:29
IV. Allegro assai
Track length6:36
I. Adagio
Track length3:04
II. Alla breva
Track length2:41
III. Largo
Track length1:39
IV. Gigue
Track length4:22

Awards and reviews

February 2017

The performances from Rebel under Jörg-Michael Schwarz are nothing if not committed (Goldberg’s taut allegros are certainly intense affairs), with the violins quickly settling as natural sparring partners, and always solidly underpinned by the fleet-of-foot continuo…Rebel have successfully extended our awareness of a household name to a musician with his own legacy

10th January 2017

Richly inventive repertoire by music history’s most famous forgotten composer.
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