A feature of Jeremy Denk's work as a pianist – a blisteringly original, thoughtful one at that – is his parallel skill at writing about music. In this unrushed, transparent, unmannered account of the Goldbergs, he provides an invaluable DVD of "video" programme notes, a bonus for anyone still trying to comprehend these variations, which I suspect is all of us. With unvarnished honesty Denk has said: "The best reason to hate the Goldberg Variations – aside from the obvious reason that everyone asks you all the time which of the two [Glenn Gould] recordings you prefer – is that everybody loves them… I worried for years that I would be seduced into playing them, and would become like all the others – besotted, cultish – and that is exactly what happened." This CD is another to cherish in the huge catalogue of Goldberg recordings.