Goldberg Variations
On this highly charged occasion, Vladimir Feltsman performed live at the  Moscow Conservatory during his first return to Russia since his exile in 1987.  He certainly goes all out in what sounds like a deliberate effort to give the  performance of a lifetime. Rapid variations are dazzling, climaxes are powerful,  and Feltsman often varies the repeats (all of which he takes) with  embellishments and changes of register, sometimes playing the lower part above  the upper. These additional elements make the recording even more compelling  than it would otherwise have been. It sounds like a once-in-a-lifetime event.--Leslie Gerber