Utwory na płycie:

• Aria (Arr. for Harp)
• Variation 1 (Arr. for Harp)
• Variation 2 (Arr. for Harp)
• Variation 3, Canone all'Unison
• Variation 4 (Arr. for Harp)
• Variation 5 (Arr. for Harp)
• Variation 6, Canone alla Secon
• Variation 7, al tempo di Giga
• Variation 8 (Arr. for Harp)
• Variation 9, Canone alla Terza
• Variation 10, Fughetta (Arr. f
• Variation 11 (Arr. for Harp)
• Variation 12, Canone all Quart
• Variation 13 (Arr. for Harp)
• Variation 14 (Arr. for Harp)
• Variation 15, Canone alla Quin
• Variation 16, Ouverture (Arr.
• Variation 17 (Arr. for Harp)
• Variation 18, Canone alla Sest
• Variation 19 (Arr. for Harp)
• Variation 20 (Arr. for Harp)
• Variation 21, Canone alla Sett
• Variation 22, Alla breve (Arr.
• Variation 23 (Arr. for Harp)
• Variation 24, Canone all'Ottav
• Variation 25, Adagio (Arr. for
• Variation 26 (Arr. for Harp)
• Variation 27, Canone alla Nona
• Variation 28 (Arr. for Harp)
• Variation 29 (Arr. for Harp)
• Variation 30, Quodlibet (Arr.
• Aria da Capo (Arr. for Harp)

Goldberg Variations
Version for Harp

King’s College presents Bach’s iconic ‘Goldberg Variations’, arranged for harp by the outstanding young American musician Parker Ramsay. Somehow both delightfully intricate and beautifully simple, the ‘Goldbergs’ are recorded here in the wondrous acoustic of King’s College Chapel.

This version of the Goldberg Variations was created by Parker in part to make a statement about the harp: “I wanted to show the world that the harp is an instrument of beauty, sincerity and transcendence, standing alongside the keyboards and string instruments as a worthy vehicle for the music of J S Bach.”

The album is accompanied by extensive notes by Pulitzer Prize winning music critic Tim Page and leading Bach scholar Burkhard Schwalbach.

Parker Ramsay’s career is distinguished by its breadth and crossing of instrumental boundaries and genres at the harp, organ and harpsichord. Equally at home on modern and period instruments, Parker splits his time between pursuing historical performance and working with composers to push the technical limits of the modern pedal harp.

He was the first American to hold the post of Organ Scholar at King’s, from 2010–2013, following a long line of prestigious predecessors. Winner of the 2014 Sweelinck Competition in Amsterdam, he went on to pursue graduate studies at Oberlin Conservatory and the Juilliard School. He is co-director of A Golden Wire and works regularly with Apollo’s Fire, the Academy of Sacred Drama, the Shanghai Camerata, and a number of other period ensembles in the United States.

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Recorded at 192kHz 24-bit PCM in the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, by kind permission of the Provost and Scholars, 10-13 September 2019.