Pregnant pauses

A depthless love for The Goldberg Variations is not required to write for Moreover, but I can't think of another single piece of music that so many of us revere. We may disagree on recordings - Gould's 1981 has burned into my brain; listening to anything else is like wearing shoes a half-size off - but this article, on Simone Dinnerstein's new recording, will probably make all of our hearts beat faster. The article itself takes on the purplish hues almost inevitable when writing about music one loves, but Ms Dinnerstein's backstory (self-financed recording made while pregnant; globe-trotting tour schedule preceding a label contract) is intriguing, and audio samples are the first recording I have ever heard to make me think the Gould's 1981 performance might, just might, have a peer.

Ms Dinnerstein is playing the Goldbergs four times this month - in Baltimore, Dallas, Philadelphia and upstate New York - and once in October in London. Moreover will try to catch at least one of those. Stay tuned.