I am currently in the process of reviewing Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32, from the theme of the second movement to the five variations. It's taking quite a while, but in between, I started typing Bach's "Goldberg Variations", the first aria, with a trio of violins, violas, and cellos.
My teacher was going to play the complete Goldberg Variations in a piano recital, so I started to try to play them myself in DTM. It is a wonderful piece of music that I can listen to comfortably as long as I simply listen to it on CD, and if you have a piano background, the first aria seems to be not so difficult to play. However, when I tried to type it out, I found that even though it sounded as per the score, it was tasteless and disastrous. I found out that the entire variation was very elaborately designed, and since it was the first aria, it was not easy to play. It is very deep!
Therefore, I decided to start by understanding the role of each voice part. I searched for sheet music and was fortunate to find a score for a violin, viola, and cello trio arrangement by violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky, dedicated in memory of Glenn Gould. The three voices are well assigned to each of the three instruments.
The Goldberg Variations is a piece for harpsichord, as it is entitled "Aria and Various Variations for Clavicembalo with 2-step keyboard". The title of the piece is "Aria and Various Variations for Clavicembalo with 2-step keyboard", which means "with 2-step keyboard" (crossing of left and right hands), and it is well known that the young Glengrood made it famous by playing it on a single-step pino.
Well, let's see what happens.