One of the greatest piano solo recordings - Rosalyn Tureck playing the Goldberg Variations. http://www.vaimusic.com/CD/1029_1142-2.shtml
Here's a review from JS Bach.org: These performances, recorded at William F. Buckley's estate on Long Island, were originally released on Albany Records. "There is nobody quite like her," Richard Dyer wrote of Tureck. A scholar as well as a performer, Tureck herself notes that "My studies of the dances of the 17th and 18th centuries reveal the little-recognized fact that Bach composed his dance movements with meticulous exactitude according to the specific steps and metre of each dance form, that is much more precisely than an overlay of general rhythm, character, and mood, though these are also achieved with unerring aesthetic sense and beauty." As for unerring aesthetic sense and beauty, Tureck might have been describing her own playing as well. These live peformances, before a small and appreciative audience are lovely. I agree... the sonics are absolutely fantastic. The recording is far more intimate than Gould, Perahia, Brendel, Richter or Serkin. Of course it was recorded in someone's home.... -- fezco ------------------------------------------------------------------------ fezco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3855 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20611 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
