Richard Powers with Nihal Arthanayake
The Penguin Podcast
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The Goldberg Variations by Bach
"I've always been inspired by the simplicity and the endless baroque complexity that Bach manages to fit into the same vessel," he says. "To feel in my fingers this absolutely simple pattern of two lines imitating each other at the interval of a sixth while the left hand traces out this tiny little bass is to be very, very small and very, very large at the same time."
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