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The music was self recorded & filmed by Ysaÿe Trio live at home.
This new work brings together poetry, music and visual art in an uplifting and thought-provoking journey through J.S. Bach's iconic Goldberg Variations. Among the variations are poems that illuminate unusual angles on solitude from 19 authors ranging from Wordsworth, Woolf and Keats to Rilke and Hesse. The work shows that throughout history and across artforms, solitude can be beautiful, rewarding and even necessary for creation and self-discovery.
Directed by British orchestral conductor Jonathan Berman, this film features:
Sir Simon Russell Beale reading the poetry, The Ysaye Trio playing their own arrangement of Bach's Goldberg Variations, and Kristina Feldhammer in her own photographic artwork.
“The Goldberg Variations: Meditations on Solitude" was created, rehearsed, filmed and edited during lockdown - and is a new type of concert hall experience designed especially for audiences watching from home.
Watch on Vimeo:
Complete Movie [83:09] | Trailer [1:10] | Trailer [1:10] | Trailer 2 [0:58] |
