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Holloway - Gilded Goldberg
 
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Holloway - Gilded Goldberg
~ Robin Holloway (Composer), Jennifer Micallef (Performer), Glen Inanga (Performer)
3.5 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
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  • Composer: Robin Holloway
  • Performer: Jennifer Micallef, Glen Inanga
  • Audio CD (18 Nov 2002)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Hyperion
  • ASIN: B00006RHQB
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 62,091 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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  1. Gilded Goldbergs
    Composed by Robin Holloway
    with Jennifer Micallef, Glen Inanga

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5.0 out of 5 stars Holloway's giddy and golden 'Gilded Goldbergs', 6 April 2003
What a creative idea: to write a variation on each of the Goldberg Variations! But that's not what Robin Holloway initially intended to do. He admits that he was so stumped at his own clumsy attempts to play the Goldbergs at his own piano that he had the idea to clarify the counterpoint, so entangled in the two-hand version, by recasting the more complex variations for two pianos. As he proceeded (and got willing partners to play them over with him) he and his partners had such fun that he got charged up to recast all the variations, even the ones which were not so complicated. (He was not aware that Joseph Rheinberger - Liechtenstein's only significant composer! - had made a two-piano version in the 1880s.) Over a period of about six years, and in hiatuses between his other more 'serious' composing chores, he added more and more meta-variations until he was finally finished in late 1997.

The variations written fairly early in this 'adventure,' (as Holloway terms it), do not wander far from their models; indeed, they could be considered transcriptions. But as the spirit of adventur