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Music Hexham Abbey Festival 2026

Danny Driver: Goldberg Variations

  • Thursday 24 September, 7.30pm
  • Tickets From £5
  • Hexham Abbey Nave
GOLDBERG VARIATIONS

Opening and closing with one of the most beautiful melodies ever written, and with 32 stunning variations in between, Goldberg Variations is music that is absorbing, dazzling, moving, exciting and astonishing, all at once. JS Bach wrote nothing else like it and, to this day, it is a landmark in any keyboard player’s career.

The Guardian called pianist Danny Driver’s playing “full of insight and exuberance”. Seen & Heard International described it as “…expressive (and, at the end, thunderous). I think we all felt that we had been taken on a long, varied and endlessly fascinating journey to get there.” These variations are just such a journey – unmissable.

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