Jean Rondeau made a huge impression on the VRS audience in 2018 when he performed at our ‘Surprise Concert’ in the Telus Theatre at the Chan Centre. The 30-year-old Frenchman has gone on to become a veritable superstar and a global ambassador for the harpsichord, described by the Washington Post as “a master of his instrument with the sort of communicative gifts normally encountered in musicians twice his age.”
“An ode to silence” is how Jean has described Bach’s Goldberg Variations. “I feel they were written for silence, in the sense that they take the place of silence,” he says. “All Bach is there in the Goldberg Variations… all music is there… and I will no doubt spend my life working on them.”
J.S. BACH: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
“Rondeau is a wizard. Forget grace, forget melancholy – this is brilliance.” — Gramophone Magazine
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