15. Listen to Bach: Goldberg Variations

Lang Lang behind the keys. Deutsche Grammophon.

Leave it to the pianist with 200-horsepower hands to wait 20 years before getting around to Bach’s

and then put out a double album. The results are, as always with Lang Lang, a mixture of the astounding and the maddening: Some variations move in slo-mo, others at luge speed; some are spare, others encrusted with ornamentation.