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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 5099751747925
Label: Sony Classical
Manufacturer: Sony Classical
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony Classical
Release Date: July 26, 2004
Studio: Sony Classical
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Is it the done thing for a non-music-specialist to review classical (ok, baroque) music? I love music but have limited experience of the measures by which Bach performance is judged.
On the other hand, I do know that truly great music has to grab you in the guts as well as stimulate the grey matter.
I was put off Bach 10 years ago by an interminal piano recital (by a well-known pianist) that made the whole thing mechanical and tedious. But my slow re-education has brought ... Read More
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Glenn Gould's first recording of the Goldberg Variations is fresh and vibrant. Apparently Bach wrote the music as a kind of extended lullaby, but I've never yet managed to sleep through any of this recording. (Gould's later recording, from 1981, is more soothing.)
On this disk there are also two fugues from the Well Tempered Clavier. I think of the E major fugue (BWV 878) as a kind of ultimate idea of fugue: if someone wants to know what a fugue is, this is what they need to hear. Gould ... Read More
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