A special 4-hour edition of the broadcast awaits you today, from 8am - 12noon Central Time. And no Glenn Gould: that would be too obvious.

1. J. S. Bach: Goldberg Variations BWV 988 (1741)
Arranged by Ferruccio Busoni (1914)
Sara Davis Buechner - piano
Bach-Busoni Edition Vol.1
Koch International Classics, KIC-CD-7739
32'
(Gather the women and children! Run for the hills!!! A Busoni edition of Bach!!)

2. J. S. Bach: Goldberg Variations BWV 988 (1741)
Arranged by Uri Caine (1999-2000)
Uri Caine Ensemble
Winter & Winter, 910 054-2
153'
(More like the Rube Goldberg Variations. Reviewers who panned this recording as an abominable excrescence need to relookup the definition of Baroque.)

3. J. S. Bach: Goldberg Variations BWV 988 (1741)
Ralph Kirkpatrick - harpsichord
Deutsche Grammophon, 469 673-2
44'
(What's your favourite? Mine is No. 25, played beautifully here by Kirkpatrick on two manuals, the black pearl of the Goldbergs.)