There's no one quite like Bach. Every time I hear the Aria from his Goldberg Variations – a keyboard masterpiece written, so the story goes, to soothe an insomniac Russian ambassador – I feel myself pause and forget whatever I've been doing. It's music of the most beautiful serenity. Here it is performed by the superlative Murray Perahia.
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Do you remember him practising these over the back garden wall when you were a tad younger? X
I do remember living there, indeed! X
*him* living there.
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