When Simone Dinnerstein's debut recording, the complete Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach—a self-funded passion project—was picked up and released by Telarc in 2007, her career was "launched into the stratosphere", with the album outselling the rock band The White Stripes on Amazon.com during its initial release. It would announce her as not only of the leading interpreters of Bach's music—but a leading pianists in general—of our time, an artist of staggering technical prowess, soulful sensitivity, and of wide-ranging sensibility. On Thursday, Dinnerstein's 53rd birthday, afternoon host Foley Schuler will present a portion of the Goldberg Variations from the afore-mentioned debut recording, as well as major work written especially for the celebrated pianist by her longtime collaborator—composer and Bach-scholar, Philip Lasser: a beautiful, introspective concerto for piano and orchestra entitled The Circle and the Child, based on a Bach chorale tune and work that, in the composer's words, "speaks of memory, inner voyage and closeness."
That and more, Thursday afternoon on Classical Music with Foley Schuler.
You can hear Foley Schuler's musical selections—and stories behind the music—every weekday afternoon from 1 until 4 on Blue Lake Public Radio.
