I’ve been listening to Dmitri Sitkovetsky’s 20-year-old string-orchestra arrangement of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations — recorded in 1993 and still available from Nonesuch.
My main reason for recommending it: the music dances so beautifully.
Not sure I should be posting the YouTube version here, because it’s a whole performance, so make sure you check out the album details on the official site here.
John Terauds
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
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