Bach’s Goldberg Variations are a whole imaginative universe; tonight, violinist Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque offer a fresh but deeply faithful reinterpretation.

Myths and legends spiral around JS Bach’s miraculous Goldberg Variations, but the reality is even more remarkable. A simple, haunting melody unlocks a chain of musical jewels, by turns intricate, profound and endlessly fascinating. No one performer can ever do the Goldbergs justice, and today “queen of the baroque violin” Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque open a new portal into a masterpiece without limits: re-arranging Bach’s keyboard original for the sort of small orchestra he might have assembled himself. Gramophone magazine heard “joy and humanity coupled with whopping colouristic variety and cumulative power” – but come and experience it for yourself.