Today, November 27th Lang Lang releases his new visual album exclusively on Apple Music for one week. A selection of the Goldberg Variations is performed from the historic Temple (东景缘, Dongjingyuan) in Beijing – site of the old imperial printing house and a former Buddhist shrine, meticulously renovated in recent years to preserve its multi-layered history.
The superstar pianist, who waited 20 years before playing Johann Sebastian Bach’s monumental composition in public, has finally achieved his goal of recording the Goldberg Variations. Listen to the result of two decades of deep study and personal reflection, his vision of Bach’s Aria and 30 Variations here.