Try to listen Grigory Sokolov, especially Golberg Variations, that Glen Gould was famous for. The precision of the play and control of sound make him the best Bach players these days. Gould was very impressed!
The courante (and others) is always interesting on piano to see what performers do dynamically. This interpretation is quite animated and tells a complex story.
me too. she was the first recording i heard of book II and i was immediately and forever mesmerized by her. that was 20 years ago, and no one has replaced her.
Yes you are probably right. This is especially true of music of the complexity of Bach's. For instance in the WTC, there are several versions which I find outstanding: Richter, Hewitt and Gulda, but I would find it hard to chose the best. Each sheds a different light on the work.
Metà dei commenti parla di quale sia l'interpretazione migliore di tutte. Che stupidaggine, ci sono ottime interpretazioni e lo scopo non è quello di trovare quella migliore
There is much in common between of playing by Glenn Gould and Tatiana Nikolaeva. But there is also a significant difference: 1) Gould first recorded Bach's Partitas in the middle of the fifties while Nikolaeva made her records in 1980, so she had already heard Glenn Gould's interpretation; 2) Nikolaeva sends to us very much open feeling and expression while Gould keeps mostly his own emotions inside. Nikolaeva stands on the Earth, Gould lives on the Heaven. I prefer Glenn.
I don't have a copy of the CD. I heard it on YT, but it was later removed due to copyright issues. There's another outstanding version of the partitas I heard recently by Angela Hewitt (on a CD I borrowed).
I don't think it's possible, at this level of playing, to say that something is 'better.' Maybe you prefer another version for some reason; it's subjective. I love Perahia's Bach, perhaps more than Nikolayeva's, but I wouldn't call it better.
Interesting so much staccato, well before Gould made it fairly commonplace. A nice way to set off the voices, but to do it in the allemande and courante? And after the sarabande, back to it in the trio and for much of the gigue. A different touch would be called for, I would think.
very good! Landowska is too much better, but not human. Nobody in the history of world has like Landowska. Nicolayeva is superb, but human, like us. believe in me.
you dont get pianists like this today... because the human sensibility has been abused by an evolutionary deformation caused by a rash of holocausts and world wars in the last twenty seconds of the earth's life...most musicians are not artists, nor are those calling themselves poets, occasionally there is an exception such as Glenn Gould or Nick Drake...in the same way you cannot have a painter like memling or van eyck anymore but you can have damien hirst.all the best for the future!
