Vladimir Feltsman

[brahmsian]

Has anybody else heard his Bach? I think his Art of the Fugue is amazing.

[Pumkinhead]

I studied with Vladimir Feltsman this summer, as well as Alexander Slobodyanik and Alex Korsantia, and he was definately the best of the three. His Goldberg is notorious for being so eccentric, but he really does have an artistic ear for Bach. Also, he was absolutely crazy as a teacher, and very harsh at times, but I've never learned as much as I did in those four short weeks with him.

[andhow04]

I studied with Vladimir Feltsman this summer, as well as Alexander Slobodyanik and Alex Korsantia, and he was definately the best of the three. His Goldberg is notorious for being so eccentric, but he really does have an artistic ear for Bach. Also, he was absolutely crazy as a teacher, and very harsh at times, but I've never learned as much as I did in those four short weeks with him.

u must have been at new paltz. i was thar a few years ago. I played the bach english suite in e minor for vladimir feltsman and he hated it so much eh kicked me in the leg. No im not joking. i liked alexander slobodyanik tho because i would play something, and he would wait and then go, in a deep voice "BLlegurgjghrughb" and u couldnt understand anything. the only recordings of vladimir feltsman i haev ever liked were the bach ones i didnt like anything else. these days i like goldberg less and less, and in a lot of his WTC it sounds like , well, he didnt practice. like g# minor in Book II for instance. i like the ideas in his goldberg variations but unfrotunately i just dont think it is well played.