Harpsichord star Mahan Esfahani approaches one of the greatest masterpieces of the Baroque repertoire with fresh eyes: Bach's incomparable Goldberg Variations, which he presents in a unique virtuosic way. "Mahan Esfahani has made giant strides to bring the harpsichord into the mainstream of concert life. Over the next five seasons Mahan explores Bach's works for harpsichord, opening with the Goldberg Variations, a masterpiece of great virtuosity, beauty and vast inventive range written for two-manual harpsichord in 1741." "I cannot deny that I find a great deal of narrative and life beyond the score when I play [the Goldberg Variations]. Coming in the last decade of the composer's life, they offer us a view both of someone looking back on his decades-long aesthetic transformation and of an innovative and sensitive musician responding to new trends and techniques around him" – Mahan Esfahani