Name: Variation 12 - Canone Alla Quarta by Geoffrey Liu
Duration: 1 min 26 s
Description: The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, is a work written for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of 30 variations. First published in 1741, the work is considered to be one of the most important examples of variation form. The Variations are named after Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, who may have been the first performer.

It is time! The horns are sounding!
The hunters in their hunting dress
Are mounted on their horses;
In early dawn the borzois are jumping.
— Aleksandr Pushkin

Recorded at Seattle First Baptist Church, Oct. 2021.

Tchaikovsky -- The Seasons: September ("The Hunt" / "La chasse" / "Die Jagd")

Once upon a Christmas night
The girls were telling fortunes:
Taking their slippers off their feet
And throwing them out of the gate.

— Vasily Zhukovsky

Tchaikovsky -- The Seasons: December ("Christmas-Time")

The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, is a work written for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of 30 variations. First published in 1741, the work is considered to be one of the most important examples of variation form. The Variations are named after Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, who may have been the first performer.

Variation 12 - Canone Alla Quarta

Liszt -- Orage, from Années de Pèlerinage, Book 1.

Variation 12 - Canone Alla Quarta

Geoffrey Liu

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