Name: Bach: “Goldberg Variations”
Start: 2025-07-27T19:00:00
Location: Eberbach Abbey

Thibaut Garcia

Antoine Morinière

Rheingau Musik Festival

For many years, the man with the red trombone dreamed of celebrating a musical Christmas in the company of good friends and with a selection of very different Christmas carols that he had encountered over the course of his career. In 2006 the time had come, and because "Christmas With My Friends" was soon considered by fans and critics alike to be one of the most beautiful Christmas records ever recorded, several editions have since been produced. This format now also takes place with great regularity at the Rheingau Music Festival and attracts not only true jazz fans, but a broad audience during Advent to the beautiful Kurhaus Wiesbaden. With his musical confidants Jonas Knutsson, Johan Norberg, Clas Lassbo and the four singers Ida Sand, Sharon Dyall, Jessica Pilnäs and Jeanette Köhn, Nils Landgren ventures into traditional songs and cover versions of exquisite Christmas carols in this concert.

Nils Landgren: “Christmas with my friends”

Friedrich-von-Thiersch-Saal

Do Bach's "Goldberg Variations" help you sleep better? That, at least, was the idea behind the composition that Count von Keyserlingk commissioned from none other than Johann Sebastian Bach. He wanted a piece of music with a "gentle and somewhat lively character" that would make it easier for him to fall asleep. He hadn't expected that Bach would send him such an artistic, complex, and yet exciting masterpiece, whose balance between soulful sensitivity and supreme technical mastery is bound to hold anyone's breath. And that's even more true when these two are at work: Thibaut Garcia and Antoine Morinière, two outstanding virtuosos, have taken on the challenge of transposing Bach's magnificent piano work to twelve guitar strings. The result is so touchingly beautiful, and the perfect harmony of their instruments so impressive, that sleep is completely out of the question.