I have written many times about Jonathan Ferrucci and his lock down project to learn the Goldberg Variations.
As he says a lifetime may not be enough to enter completely into the genial mind of J.S.Bach. One can but try and this is the start of a remarkable voyage of discovery. Now on his fifth public performance I think that from the spell that he created in Florence last night it was evidence enough that he is on the right trail. Seventy five minutes of total silence from an elite audience surrounded by the books of that remarkable aesthete Harold Acton.
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