Today sees the release of an innovative new recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations (in an arrangement by Chad Kelly) performed by violinist Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque on Channel Classics, called 'Bach Goldberg Variations Reimagined'. And in today's video we are pleased to present Var 26, performed by Podger and Brecon Baroque:

Podger is no stranger to Bach's music, of course, and this year was shortlisted for a Gramophone Award for her album 'Tutta sola', which featured the  Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV565. Brecon Baroque have recorded, with Podger, Bach's The Art of Fugue, about which Lindsay Kemp wrote: 'This is not an interpretation that wants to grab you by the lapels but rather one which by its natural ebb and flow aims to draw you stealthily into the music and have you breathe with it, so that you don’t notice the fugal climaxes coming until your own chest is swelling.'

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