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Question: Whose Bach playing do you like the most?
Glenn Gould
Martha Argerich
Murray Perahia
Andras Schiff
Angela Hewitt
Alexis Weissberg
Richard Goode
Sviatoslav Richter
Maria Joao Pires
Chandler Bing

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thalberg
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« on: June 18, 2007, 02:07:40 AM »
Okay.......here's an incomplete and probably strange list of people who play Bach and have recordings released.  Who do you like the best?
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« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2007, 06:03:28 AM »
Chinandler Bong???   Shocked

um... Thalberg... you know something I don't?   Wink
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« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2007, 06:59:05 AM »
Rosalyn Tureck is cruelly missing in your list. As well as Nikolaieva, Badura-Skoda...
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« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2007, 07:36:25 AM »
Ivo Pogorelich is also missing. He is one of the best alive today I think
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« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2007, 04:12:30 PM »
Weissenberg and Gould
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« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2007, 05:07:27 PM »
Keith Jarrett and Keith Emerson  Cheesy

...and Jacques Loussier of course!

...and not to forget Wendy Carlos!
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« Reply #6 on: June 21, 2007, 07:18:43 PM »
wanda landowska ?!
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« Reply #7 on: June 21, 2007, 08:34:14 PM »
Yonty Solomon, anyone?

Best,

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« Reply #8 on: June 21, 2007, 10:00:46 PM »
Samuil Feinberg
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« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2007, 12:25:21 PM »
All those wonderful pianists...

...but when it comes to Bach, noooone of them surpasses Gould. Or so I think.  Smiley
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« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2007, 09:42:56 PM »
Quote from: quasimodo on June 18, 2007, 06:59:05 AM
Rosalyn Tureck is cruelly missing in your list. As well as Nikolaieva, Badura-Skoda...


Yes, yes......my original post humbly acknowledged this list is incomplete.....no cruelty intended.
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« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2007, 09:46:07 AM »
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« Reply #12 on: July 25, 2007, 03:25:14 AM »
Didn't Wendy Carlos write some of the music in The Shining?
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« Reply #13 on: July 25, 2007, 03:28:12 AM »
Quote from: Nightscape on July 25, 2007, 03:25:14 AM
Didn't Wendy Carlos write some of the music in The Shining?

Yep. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film)#Music.2FSoundtrack

And Gould, btw.
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« Reply #14 on: July 25, 2007, 07:59:37 PM »
Has to be Rachel
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« Reply #15 on: July 30, 2007, 02:51:25 AM »
I wish I was at home and had my "Glenn Gould Reader!"  He reviews "Switched-on BAch" and gives Wendy Carlos a stunning compliment or two.  I will quote them later.  I think he is the best!
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« Reply #16 on: July 30, 2007, 07:59:23 AM »
My favorite is Angela Hewitt.  I also really enjoy Schiff's recording of the inventions and sinfonias.  Glenn Gould is uneven for me, in that several pieces are wonderful whereas other pieces are odd.
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« Reply #17 on: November 17, 2007, 08:05:03 PM »
I happen to have the complete WTC recording by Jorg Demus. I'd say his is my favorite WTC.
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« Reply #18 on: November 17, 2007, 08:38:36 PM »
Quote from: mcgillcomposer on June 25, 2007, 09:46:07 AM
Richter

His fugue in C# minor is magic.
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« Reply #19 on: November 17, 2007, 09:29:58 PM »
It's Weissenberg, not Weissberg.  His playing is intense.
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« Reply #20 on: July 19, 2008, 02:27:09 PM »
None of those.
for Bach, in particular, I find pianists of the current period have more insight. Not all of them of course...
But really, listen to Ivo Janssen and Angela Hewitt, those two are really onto something with Bach. On the other hand, absolutely avoid Barenboim...
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« Reply #21 on: July 19, 2008, 06:40:20 PM »
Richter and Tureck
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« Reply #22 on: July 20, 2008, 05:28:06 AM »
rosalyn tureck.
there are several interesting and cool interpretations, but to me, her bach renderings are sublime, one of the most perfect contributions to the art of piano playing ever made.
best!
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« Reply #23 on: July 20, 2008, 07:50:24 AM »
Sviatoslav Richter
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