I love her rendering, it's relaxed, meditative yet light when the music calls for lightheartedness, she manages to blend the staccato bits with tasteful legato!
YES. One of the many great Bach pianists (Tureck, Gould, Schiff, Richter, Fischer). I particularly like the gentleness and elegance she brings to appropriate moments though she does not lose sight of the grander and more spiritual aspects.
Tic the boxes...articulated AND legato - wonderful. phrase-shaping within the one long phrase of the piece - wonderful. I could go on and on. Thank you to FirstPublicChannel for this entrance to a new and exciting world.
She was certainly greatly celebrated in the Soviet Union, which made up a very large part of the world. I would assume she also would have been very well known in Eastern Europe given the politico-ideological orientation of that part of the world during the time Nikolayeva did the bulk of her work.
Exactly my point...Soviet artists at the time were not exactly traveling freely across the globe during the cold war, and the SU was not a big part of the world when we consider China, North & South America, Canada and the rest of Southeast Asia. That is partly why Horowitz left. I wish Tatiana had too...
She really plays triplets and fourplets (16ths) different although occurring at the same time, I would think Bach convention was to interpret even 8ths when single "pickup" note as 16ths when the overall picture is dotted eighths. There is a Goode (and Levitt) recording on YT with a fresh tempo and logically flowing rhythm.
Having said that, there is the danger that she gets a little too meditative, over interprets Bach, letting her personality get in the way of the purity of the music. I'm sure Bach is looking down from heaven & smiling at all the ways we play his music!
Jiehao Tan :: I think Bach as virtuoso (he was) would ask his sons to play this fast, to learn speed. (But it sounds good in slower tempi, too). Actually Bach wouldn't have played it on piano but on cembalo, clavier or maybe pipe organ, but it sounds much better on piano.
