Unknotting Bach Goldberg Variations - Var.5

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This series aims to make Bach's Goldberg Variations more comfortable to play on piano. Urtext notation edits and fingering suggestions featured in each video for download in my new edition:

VIDEO:
Bach Goldberg Variations (Complete) in Overhead Keyboard View (v.2)
   • Видео  
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PIANO LESSON: videos take each variation individually, highlight changes made to the urtext notation and offer fingering suggestions via variation played at a slow tempo.

   • Bach Goldberg Variations  
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ARIA: (and Aria da Capo) is played from the Ferruccio Busoni edition of the Goldberg Variations available (Free) from IMSLP Public Domain Music Library.
http://imslp.org/wiki/Goldberg-Variat...

Select "Arrangements and Transcriptions" tab.
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HARMONIC PEDAL:
In this recording I use the harmonic pedal (4th pedal on the Lyra) Our English and French language Harmonic Pedal channels:

   / harmonicpianopedal  
   / lapedaleharmonique  
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Spoken dialogue in this video in English language text (as requested for online translation)

Variation 5 is one of the most enjoyable minute and a half (approximately) of all keyboard music - in both the musical and physical sense - to play on piano I know of, that is, when these notes highlighted in brown are regrouped like this ...

Variation 5 was written for a 2 manual harpsichord and is the 1st of the "crossing hands" variations to potentially knot-up the fingers, at a fast tempo, in certain sections highlighted, if you play the variation as set out in the urtext edition, on piano.

There's absolutely no need for this to be the case and I've regrouped the notes as if the variation was originally written for a single keyboard like this ...

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These note regroupings allow the individual voices to be played with more control in these otherwise tricky sections, in either legato or staccato and with a decidedly more predictable outcome in performance.


Here's Variation 5 in an overhead keyboard view. I begin the variation in forte and repeat in mezzo piano in both sections.

Here's the right and left hand seperately at a slow tempo for those looking for fingering suggestions:

Here's Variation 4 and 5 run together.