Gile Bae - Bach: Goldberg Variations

Hybrid Stereo SACD

Gile Bae, an internationally acclaimed classical pianist, begins an important recording career with fonè records.
Gifted from a young age, she has won numerous awards and performs at international stages, and is an artist devotee of the renowned Bösendorfer pianos.

Her first album sees her busy with J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations — an absolute masterpiece. This album was recorded in the Sala dell'Ermellino - Casa della Musica in Milano in November 2019. For this prestigious recording fonè's Giulio Cesare Ricci used the legendary original tube microphones Neumann U47, U48.

Recordings are in Stereo DSD on the Pyramix Recorder using the dCS A/D and D/A converters. A state-of-the-art system without any sound manipulation, neither equalization, nor reverberation, nor compression and expansion ... but natural sound with true timbre to best enhance the acoustics of the Sala dell'Ermellino.
The mastering has been relalized by Giulio Cesare Ricci using the Signoricci system, entirely analog and tube. No editing was used; all tracks on the record are heard as they were performed.

With this recording Giulio Cesare Ricci wanted to make the listener live a unique experience. It is as if the listener was sitting on an armchair positioned in the ideal point of the Sala dell'Ermellino. In this position the sound has a field effect and its depth, width and height are very appreciable. Great dynamics but also great precision. It's an album not to be missed.

1. Aria

2. Variation 1

3. Variation 2

4. Variation 3 canone all'unisono

5. Variation 4

6. Variation 5

7. Variation 6 canone alla seconda

8. Variation 7 al tempo di giga

9. Variation 8

10. Variation 9 canone alla terza

11. Variation 10 fughetta

12. Variation 11

13. Variation 12 canone alla quarta

14. Variation 13

15. Variation 14

16. Variation 15 canone alla quinta in moto contrario Andante

17. Variation 16 ouverture

18. Variation 17

19. Variation 18 canone alla sesta

20. Variation 19

21. Variation 20

22. Variation 21 canone alla settima (G minor)

23. Variation 22 alla breve

24. Variation 23

25. Variation 24 canone all'ottava

26. Variation 25 adagio (G minor)

27. Variation 26

28. Variation 27 canone alla nona

29. Variation 28

30. Variation 29

31. Variation 30 quodlibet

32. Aria finale

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