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Mahan Esfahani’s Intriguing Goldberg Variations

by Jens F. Laurson

From the start, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani deviates from the well-worn, well-known embellishments and grace-notes in Bach’s Goldberg Variations as we know them through Grandmaster Glenn Gould and just about everyone since. The easily irritable Esfahani knows he isn’t the first to record these works, but... Continue Reading

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P.S. Almost a pity he has such thin skin and such an annoying on-line personality.