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Open Goldberg Variations (2012)

Kimiko Ishizaka, Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Douglass · 2012 · 82 min

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Included: 31 files
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Our current edition. First verified copy: 31 movements in 24-bit FLAC, item total byte-verified on the box. Read the transfer report.

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The Record

The first recording ever crowd-funded to be given away. In 2011 the pianist Kimiko Ishizaka and the MuseScore team asked Kickstarter for money to record Bach's Goldberg Variations in a proper studio and put the result — the recording and a new engraved score — into the public domain under CC0, so that no one would ever again have to ask permission to use a performance of the most famous keyboard work in the repertoire. They raised it, recorded at Teldex in Berlin in early 2012, and released it that May. It is on Wikipedia's Goldberg Variations article because it is the one performance Wikipedia is allowed to embed.

None of which would matter if the playing were merely worthy, and it is not. Ishizaka takes the repeats, keeps the ornamentation clean, and plays the Aria's return as a real ending rather than a formality. Eighty-two minutes, thirty-two movements, 24-bit files from the master.

Release details

Release: Album / curated collection
Genre: Classical / Baroque
Released: 2012-05-28
Source license: CC0 1.0
Running time: 82:10

Tracklist

Aria5:00
Variatio 1 a 1 Clav.1:55
Variatio 2 a 1 Clav.2:04
Variatio 3 a 1 Clav. Canone all Unisuono1:57
Variatio 4 a 1 Clav.1:09
Variatio 5 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav.1:34
Variatio 6 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Seconda1:38
Variatio 7 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav.2:12
Variatio 8 a 2 Clav.1:57
Variatio 9 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Terza2:06
Variatio 10 a 1 Clav. Fughetta1:46
Variatio 11 a 2 Clav.2:09
Variatio 12 Canone alla Quarta2:16
Variatio 13 a 2 Clav.4:14
Variatio 14 a 2 Clav.2:17
Kimiko Ishizaka - J.S. Bach- -Open- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Piano) - 16 Variatio 15 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Quinta4:33
Kimiko Ishizaka - J.S. Bach- -Open- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Piano) - 17 Variatio 16 a 1 Clav. Ouverture3:09
Kimiko Ishizaka - J.S. Bach- -Open- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Piano) - 18 Variatio 17 a 2 Clav.1:44
Kimiko Ishizaka - J.S. Bach- -Open- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Piano) - 19 Variatio 18 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Sexta1:49
Kimiko Ishizaka - J.S. Bach- -Open- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Piano) - 20 Variatio 19 a 1 Clav.1:25
Kimiko Ishizaka - J.S. Bach- -Open- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Piano) - 21 Variatio 20 a 2 Clav.2:05
Kimiko Ishizaka - J.S. Bach- -Open- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Piano) - 22 Variatio 21 Canone alla Settima3:55
Kimiko Ishizaka - J.S. Bach- -Open- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Piano) - 23 Variatio 22 a 1 Clav.1:33
Variatio 23 a 2 Clav.2:20
Kimiko Ishizaka - J.S. Bach- -Open- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Piano) - 25 Variatio 24 a 1 Clav. Canone all Ottava2:45
Kimiko Ishizaka - J.S. Bach- -Open- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Piano) - 26 Variatio 25 a 2 Clav.9:18
Kimiko Ishizaka - J.S. Bach- -Open- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Piano) - 27 Variatio 26 a 2 Clav.2:03
Kimiko Ishizaka - J.S. Bach- -Open- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Piano) - 28 Variatio 27 a 2 Clav. Canone alla Nona - Variatio 28 a 2 Clav.4:17
Kimiko Ishizaka - J.S. Bach- -Open- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Piano) - 29 Variatio 29 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav.2:09
Kimiko Ishizaka - J.S. Bach- -Open- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Piano) - 30 Variatio 30 a 1 Clav. Quodlibet2:01
Kimiko Ishizaka - J.S. Bach- -Open- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Piano) - 31 Aria da Capo è Fine2:50

Track order and titles follow the cited release edition. Tracklist source.

The copy we chose

Transfer Report

Chosen copy: Internet Archive item OpenGoldbergVariations — 31 FLAC files (Aria, thirty variations, Aria da capo), 1.39 GB, 1 h 22 min, with the project's PDF booklet and cover. Track files are numbered 01–31 in two naming conventions (the last two files' names are compacted); the numbering is contiguous and sorts correctly.

Checked against the work's structure: 32 movements in 31 files (the opening and closing Arias bracket thirty variations). The collection also holds a 181 MB MP3 mirror (The_Open_Goldberg_Variations-11823); the 24-bit FLAC set is the release.

Public Domain

Why It's Free

Two layers, both free:

The composition. Bach, published 1741; no copyright anywhere.
The recording. Released 2012-05-28 under CC0 1.0 Universal — a public-domain dedication by the performer and producers, stated on opengoldbergvariations.org and carried as the Archive.org item's license URL. No rights are reserved; no attribution is required, and Ishizaka, Douglass and the studio are credited here because house style credits people regardless. The score published alongside is under the same dedication.

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