PHOENIX performs Bach’s Goldberg Variations in an outstanding arrangement for strings and continuo made by conductor Bernard Labadie.

The Goldberg variations written originally for harpsichord (1741) is one of Bach’s most important works, stunning in the variety of genres it addresses. PHOENIX performs Bach’s masterpiece in a new light, through Bernard Labadie’s brilliant and ground-breaking arrangement for strings and continuo, made in the Baroque tradition of transforming the music to suit the medium.

After hearing this version, one understands that Bach’s Goldberg’s harpsichord setting is in fact a reduction of a much larger music, involving many genres: in short, it is a true revelation.