
July 31st, Saturday 12:05 pm / the tower of the Main Town Hall /
The Goldberg Variations
Gideon Bodden /Netherlands/
Jan Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 (arr. G. Bodden):
Aria
Variatio I
Variatio II
Variatio IV
Variatio VI, Canone alla secunda
Variatio VII, al tempo di giga
Variatio IX, Canone alla Terza
Variatio X, Fughetta
Variatio XIII
Variatio XV, Canone alla quinta (reverse)
Variatio XVI, French Ouverture con fugue
Variatio XVIII Canone alla sesta
Variatio XIX, Passepied
Variatio XXI, Canone alla Settima
Variatio XXII, Alla breve
Variatio XXV, Adagio
Variatio XXIX
Variatio XXX, Quodlibet
Aria


GIDEON BODDEN
Gideon Bodden (The Netherlands, *1971) is city carillonneur of Amsterdam, Schoonhoven and Hilvarenbeek. He studied at both the Mechelen carillon school (Belgium) and the Amersfoort carillon school (The Netherlands). Among the carillon contests that he won, are the Queen Fabiola Contest (1993) and, together with Gildas Delaporte, the International Duet Carillon contest at Douai (France) in 1994.
He is a frequent concert recitalist and presents lectures and courses in campanology. As a campanologist Gideon Bodden designs bell profiles using classic geometrical proportions and he tunes carillon bells. Currently he is working with bellfoundries in Slovakia, Spain, Italy and Germany. He also conducts restorations of carillons and historic automatic carillon playing devices. Carillons and peals of swinging bells with bells that he designed can be heard in The Netherlands, Belgium, England, Schotland, Germany, Hungary, Russia, Australia, Switzerland and Slovakia.
From 2009 to 2012 Gideon Bodden served as president of the Dutch Carillon Society.
