Pianist Jeremy Denk walks us through Variations No. 18 & 25 of Bach's 'Goldberg Variations.' Read his blog post: Why I Hate The 'Goldberg Variations' http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/03/16/148769794/why-i-hate-the-goldberg-variations Producers: Mito Habe-Evans, Tom Huizenga Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait Production Assistance by: Anastasia Tsioulcas, Amanda Ameer

See more musicians In Practice: http://www.npr.org/series/155236506/in-practice Jeremy Denk has his own personal "piano boot camp." Actually, it's his cramped Manhattan apartment. Beside his beloved books, a trusty coffee pot and a laptop, there's not much to do except practice. Which Denk does, hours and hours a day on a Steinway wedged into his living room.

Acclaimed pianist Jeremy Denk interviews British tenor Ian Bostridge, whose performances of Winterreise "haunt the imagination long after the notes have died away" (New York Magazine) and whose new book, Schubert's Winterreise: Anatomy of an Obsession, offers a personal examination of the song cycle's literary, historical and psychological themes.

Jeremy Denk discusses the "streams and eddies" of Bach's Goldberg Variations in this excerpt from the DVD video "liner notes" to his recording of the piece, out now on Nonesuch. Order CD/DVD: http://www.nonesuch.com/artists/jeremy-denk iTunes: http://bit.ly/DenkBachiTunes

(Starts 0:07:49) Pianist Jeremy Denk works with students to bring them to the next level of musicianship. -Table of Contents- (click "show more") 0:07:49 Introduction from CMS Artistic Director Wu Han 0:09:40 Dvorak Piano Quintet in A major, B. 155, Op. 81 0:26:03 Denk commentary on Dvorak Piano Quintet 1:06:03 Brahms Piano Trio in C minor, Op.

Pianist Jeremy Denk has talked about the "weirdness" in great music. We asked him for examples in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1, with which he makes his Philharmonic debut October 16-18, 2014. He played some "moments of harmonic slippage ... these magical 'purple patches' or senses of instability..."