Just a few days after J.S. Bach's 326th birthday on 21 March, the Open Goldberg Variations project has achieved its first fundraising milestone, raising more than $ 16,000 in just 20 days on Kickstarter.com. The project's aim is to create a new score and studio recording of J.S. Bach's masterpiece, the Goldberg Variations, and donate them to the public domain. http://kck.st/opengoldberg
Bach's Goldberg Variations were written over 270 years ago, but since that time top quality public domain scores and recordings have been all but impossible to find. The Open Goldberg Variations project will change this, thanks to the generous funding made possible by Kickstarter.com, by creating the first open source version of the score. The project will spotlight award-winning pianist Kimiko Ishizaka, who will perform the variations in a top German sound studio to produce a definitive contemporary recording of the highest professional standard.
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