After the last, and most introspective, of the three minor-key variations in the colossal piece, the reflective clouds were dispelled by the warm, rippling breeze of major-key sonorities that MacGregor conjured from the piano.
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Joanna MacGregor, City Hall, Glasgow
Joanna MacGregor, the most free-spirited of artists, produced a fantastically unpredictable and controversial ending to her performance yesterday of Bach’s Goldberg Variations; so before charting the trajectory of her interpretation, we’d better deal with that.
