Listen: Jeremy Denk Performs On WNYC's "the Leonard Lopate Show"

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Pianist Jeremy Denk was a guest on The Leonard Lopate Show on New York NPR member station WNYC yesterday. He spoke with Lopate about his latest album, a recording of J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations , which was recently released on Nonesuch Records, and performs from the piece.

"I think of Bach as this really generous spirit," Denk tells Lopate, "encompassing all of humanity's possibilities in a more perfect way than most humans are able to." Of the Goldbergs , he says: "For me, this piece has an incredible geniality and charm and invention, and then these moments of tremendous pathos."
You can listen to the complete 20-minute interview and performance here:


To pick up a copy of Jeremy Denk's recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations, which includes a companion DVD with video "liner notes" of Denk demonstrating passages on the piano as he explains certain details of the iconic piece, head to the Nonesuch Store , where orders of the CD/DVD include a download of the album at checkout.

Denk will join the San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall in New York on November 14 for a performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503. The concert is one of six he will perform with the orchestra this month, including four nights in Davies Hall in San Francisco, starting next Thursday, November 7, and a final concert at the Krannert Center in Champaign-Urbana. He performs the Mozart and Brahms' Piano Quintet in F Minor with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra later in the month. For additional details and tickets, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour .