• A new release from the series of Metropolitan Munich programs, ahead of the Celibidache and Barenboim Anniversaries to come in 2012.
• In 1992 Daniel Barenboim had just been appointed Artistic Director and General Musical Director of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin and was Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
• Today Daniel Barenboim is internationally recognized and revered as an orchestral and operatic conductor, pianist, and a musical ambassador and also as a humanitarian.
• One of Bach's most famous yet demanding and certainly immensely important works performed by Daniel Barenboim.
• Bonus: Daniel Barenboim introduces the Goldberg Variations.
• Classified as EuroArts "Recorded Excellence", with high historical value.