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Daniel Barenboim Plays Bach Goldberg Variations. DVD. Directed by Christopher Nupen. [Berlin]: EuroArts, 1992, 2012. 2066778. $24.99.
In 1992, director Christopher Nupen filmed Daniel Barenboim in a studio recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations (BWV 988). Baren - boim's 88-minute performance has recently been released on DVD along with a 10- minute bonus track (also recorded in 1992) in which Barenboim briefly discusses his approach to performing this challenging Bach work. Nupen likely intended for this film to follow on the heels of Baren - boim's live recording of the Goldberg Variations in 1990 (Erato 45468, 1990). Barenboim was then, and still is, an advocate for performing Bach with a modern (or some might say Romantic) sensibility, and this DVD certainly captures that point of view. It is...