Historical, empirical and analytical approaches to performance strategies of musical cycles. Table of Contents Editorial Johann Sebastian Bach, 'Goldberg Variations' Majid Motavasseli: Interpretation of Cyclic Form in J. S. Bach's "Goldberg Variations" through Performance History Bruno Gingras: Using Linear Mixed-Effects Models to Analyze Historical Trends in Performance Strategies. Commentary on the Article "Interpretation of Cyclic Form in J.S. Bach's "Goldberg Variations" through Performance History" Michael Rector: Performing Structure. Tempo in Glenn Gould's "Goldberg Variations" Ludwig van Beethoven, 'Diabelli Variations' Tobias Janz: Anton Diabelli's Variations Project (1819 to 1824). Historicity and Aesthetic Normativity William Kinderman: The Performance of Beethoven's "Diabelli Variations": Continuity, Discontinuity, Cyclic Integration and Irony arkus Neuwirth: 'Eine halbe terra incognita': Zur frühen Aufführungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte der 'Diabelli-Variationen' Cosima Linke: A discourse history of analyses of the 'Diabelli Variations' with a view to macroform and interpretation Thomas Glaser: Form design from a performance practice perspective: On the performance history of Beethoven's 33 changes on a waltz by A. Diabelli op. 120 Martin Zenck: Making cyclical potentials audible in musical interpretation: Eduard Steuermann's live recording of the 'Diabelli Variations' at the Juilliard School of Music in New York on 13 May 1963 Jakob Raab: Die schiefe Folie. Complexity between Metric and Performance in Beethoven's 'Diabelli Variations' Franz Schubert, Winterreise Natasha Loges: Breaking Epistemological Cycles. History, theory and performance in Schubert's Winterreise Thomas Seedorf/Marc Bangert: 'Sung by a man, it is such a completely different thing'. Schubert's Winterreise as interpreted by female singers Christian Utz: Eccentrically shaped soundscapes. Dimensions of the cyclical in the light of 106 sound recordings of Franz Schubert's Winterreise from the period 1928-2020 Kilian Sprau: Gemessenes Wandern. On the performative realisation of tempo-measure correspondences in Franz Schubert's Winterreise Bartolo Musil: Das Große und das Kleine. A few thoughts on the interpretation of Franz Schubert's Winterreise Julian Caskel: Response