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Ivory Classics CD-77005

David Korevaar: Goldberg Variations

Piano: David Korevaar

Producer: Michael Rolland Davis

Engineer: Ed Thompson

Recorded at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Buffalo, N.Y. June 4th & 5th, 2007
Original 24/88.2 Master - Recorded direct to the SADiE Artemis
24-Bit High Resolution digital workstation.

Piano: Shigeru Kawai EX Concert Grand #2425001
Shigeru Kawai Master Piano Artisan: Takanori Otake

Special thanks to: Rev. Dr. Charles D. Bang of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Buffalo, New York and Brian Chung, Senior Vice President of Kawai of America

This recording was made possible through the generous support of the Hinkle Charitable Foundation (theHCF.org) through the Hal Hinkle Fund for Classical Music Outreach at Northern Arizona University and The Ivory Classics Foundation

Liner Notes: David Korevaar and Tim Smith
Photo on page 16 of this booklet: Casey Cass / University of Colorado
Design: Samskara, Inc.

Published in the early 1740s as the fourth book of Bach's modestly titled Clavierubung ("keyboard practice"), the Aria mit verschiedenen Veranderungen ("Aria with diverse variations") is the apotheosis of the Baroque variation set. Since the early 17th century and before, composers like Girolamo Frescobaldi had been writing variations - or Partite in Italian - based on standard bass-lines with names like Follia, Ruggiero, Passacaglia, Monicha, and Romanesca. These fixed forms would have been familiar to musicians of the late Renaissance and early Baroque in the way that today's standards are to jazz musicians. By the time Bach came around to writing his grandest of all sets on a bass-line that combines features of several of these older fixed forms, these kinds of bass-oriented variation sets had already become a kind of historical curiosity.