I love this playing. The rise and fall of the melodic lines always feels just right. I don't know he keeps the gigue so together at that tempo! (Although, if you want a really fast gigue, listen to Gould--his is really too fast, while this one, again, feels just right.) Thanks for posting.
IMO,, when GG first came on the scene he dazzled (some) listeners because he played the GV faster than anyone else had ever done. People like that.. They will pay money to watch horses, greyhound dogs or eccentric pianists do what they do with lightning speed.
To The Nimble Turtle: ......." and continues to the end of the work." Don't know if you are a big fan of lots of counterpoint or canons (like I am) or just Bach in D major, but I can almost feel that keyboard 'cadenza' from the 5th Brandenburg in this Partita.
why sokolov when credit is given to Yuan Sheng Album Bach: Complete Partitas Licensed to RU-vid by Kontor New Media Music (on behalf of Piano Classics); Public Domain Compositions, and 1 Music Rights Societies
Wonderful. However, though the Allemande sounds the way an Allemande should, it doesn't feel like the appropriate tempo to me... A bit slower, perhaps...
There's a lot of wonderful playing here. But the Gigue is definitely too fast. It loses detail, for example the enjoyable syncopations soon after the start of the second half. In the performance as a whole there seems to be some influence from Tatyana Nikolaeva's splendid interpretation of this Partita -- and no wonder, Sokolov must have heard her often -- but she took the Gigue at a more rational, though still fast, speed: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pBRYoJZ2n5A.html Her performance of the whole Partita is at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U9iuIvOEeHM.html and all her Partitas are on RU-vid, to our great benefit.
