African Goldberg Variations

You may have been curious about this concert if you saw it blogged about earlier -- Sudanese-Canadian Waleed Abdulhamid's take on the music of Glenn Gould. Now you can hear it as a Concert On Demand.

“Glenn Gould opened a door for me,” says Abdulhamid. “I heard a freedom in the way he played the Goldberg Variations. And I felt I really wanted to perform this music in a pan-African way.”

Waleed brought his band WALEED KUSH to Glenn Gould Studio to participate in CBC Radio’s “Variations on Gould”. “I want to honour Glenn Gould’s creativity,” he says, “and to bring my own Sudanese view of music to Bach’s mighty Goldberg Variations.”

The piece was commissioned by Craig Scott earlier this year.

African Goldberg Variations at Concerts on Demand.