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This is a partial list of recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations.

Listed by date

  • Wanda Landowska - November 1933 Paris - EMI 5 67200 - ADD - harpsichord
  • Claudio Arrau - January-March 1942 - RCA CD GD 87841 - piano
  • Wanda Landowska - 1945 - New York City - RCA - harpsichord
  • Glenn Gould - June 21 1954 Toronto, from CBC broadcast - mono - piano
  • Glenn Gould - June 10 1955 New York - Sony Classical 52 594 - ADD - piano
    • One of the best-known and most highly regarded, performed on the piano by Gould as his eye-opening debut recording; Gould later came to criticize his early off-beat and lyrical interpretation, expressing reservations about its pianistic affectation, overt emotionalism, and lack of temporal unity.
  • Glenn Gould - 1959 live at Salzburg Festival - Sony Classical 52685 - ADD - piano
  • Ralph Kirkpatrick - 1959 Deutsche Grammophon 439 673-2 - ADD - harpsichord
  • Helmut Walcha - June 1960-March 1961 - Hamburg - EMI 4 89166 - ADD - harpsichord
  • Wilhelm Kempff - July 1969 Deutsche Grammophon 439 978-2 - ADD - piano
  • Charles Rosen - July 1969 Sony SBK 48173 - ADD - piano
  • Gustav Leonhardt - 1978 Deutsche Harmonia Mundi GD77149 - ADD - harpsichord
  • Trevor Pinnock - 1980 Archiv Produktion 415 130-2 - ADD - harpsichord
  • Glenn Gould - April/May 1981 New York - originally CBS Masterworks MK 37779, now Sony Classical 52619 - DDD - piano
    • One of Gould's very few re-recorded pieces, this time a more classical, dignified and sober rendition, won two 1983 Grammy Awards for "best instrumental soloist performance (without orchestra)" and "best classical album"
  • András Schiff - Decca 1983 - 417 116-2 (1 CD) - All repeats
  • Chen Pi-hsien - October 1985 at Festeburgkirche, Frankfürt Naxos 8.550078 - DDD - piano
  • Maria Tipo - 26-28 June 1986 Paris EMI HMV 5 86666 - DDD - piano
  • Jean Guillou - November 1987 Eglise Notre-Dame des Neiges, Alpe d'Huez, France Dorian 90110 - organ
  • Ton Koopman - 1988 ERATO 45326-2 - DDD - harpsichord
  • Keith Jarrett - January 1989 ECM Records 839 622-2 - DDD - harpsichord
  • Virginia Black - Collins 1991 - 70032-2 (2 CDs) - All repeats
  • Maggie Cole - 1991 Virgin 5 61555 (2 CD) - DDD - clavicembalo
  • Vladimir Feltsman - October 26 1991 live at the Moscow Conservatory - Musical Heritage Society 513260T - DDD - piano - All repeats
  • Pierre Hantaï - June 1992 - Opus 111 OPS 30-84 - DDD - harpsichord
  • Andrei Gavrilov - 1993 Deutsche Grammophon 435 436-2 - DDD - piano
  • New European Strings Chamber Orchestra (Orchestra) - October 1993 Hamburg, transcription by Dmitry Sitkovetsky - Nonesuch - orchestra
  • Peter Serkin - June 1-3, 1994 Manhattan BMG Classics 09026 68188 2 - DDD - piano
  • Konstantin Lifschitz - June 10-13 1994 Denon Records - #78961 - DDD - piano (Lifschitz was 17 at time of recording.)
  • Christophe Rousset - September 27-29, 1994 originally L'Oiseau-Lyre, now Decca 475 7080 - DDD - harpsichord - All repeats
  • Masaaki Suzuki - February, June and July 1997 BIS BIS-CD-310819 - DDD - harpsichord - All repeats
  • Pieter-Jan Belder - 20 April, 8/9 July 1999 - Brilliant Classics 92284 - DDD - harpsichord
  • Angela Hewitt - 28 August - 1 September 1999, Henry Wood Hall, London, Hyperion Records CDA 67305 - piano
  • Amati String Trio - December 1999 Middelburg Synagogue, The Netherlands Columns Classics 99564 - DDD - string
  • Murray Perahia - July 2000 Sony Classical SK/SM 89243 - DDD - piano
  • Celine Frisch - 2001 Alpha 14 (2 CDs) - with BWV 1087 - harpsichord
  • Wolfgang Dimetrik - 2001 amphion records 20126 - DDD - accordion
  • Jill Crossland - 2003 Apex (Warner Classics) 0927 49979 2 - DDD - piano
  • Pierre Hantaï - 2003 - Mirare MIR 9945 - DDD - harpsichord
  • Jenő Jandó - 2005 Naxos 8.557268 - DDD - piano
  • Richard Egarr - 8-11 March 2005 Harmonia Mundi HMU 907425.26 - with BWV 1087 - DDD - harpsichord
    • According to Egarr's notes, he uses a tuning discovered by Bradley Lehman which may have been Bach's and uses a harpsichord with quills set to this tuning scheme; also he performs some of the canons of 1087 as a multi-track performance, i.e. he plays the canons in more than two parts separately and the recording was mixed later to create a multi-track performance.

Without recording date - To be inserted in the first list

  • Christiane Jaccottet - ZYX Classics CLS 4131
  • Rosalyn Tureck - (1) Polygram Records - #459599; also (2) Video Arts Int'l (VAI) - #1029
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