What are you listening to?

[Jared]

beautifully sensitive renditions of two of my favourite Haydn Masses... for me, it really doesn't get much better than that...

[Jose Echenique]

Bach – Goldberg Variations:





I enjoyed this performance of the Goldberg variations. I felt that they were played with great artistry and sensitivity as indeed was the whole set. I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to Schiff in this music.

As you know dear Fergus, I prefer my Bach Kosher, but if it´s going to be on the piano I take any day Andras Schiff over Glenn Gould.

[Jared]

As you know dear Fergus, I prefer my Bach Kosher, but if it´s going to be on the piano I take any day Andras Schiff over Glenn Gould.

Pepe, what do you think of Ms Hewitt? I could listen to her Bach all day long, but it appears to be a matter of opinion as to whether she is considered to be up there with the greats..

[Jose Echenique]

As you know dear Fergus, I prefer my Bach Kosher, but if it´s going to be on the piano I take any day Andras Schiff over Glenn Gould.

Pepe, what do you think of Ms Hewitt? I could listen to her Bach all day long, but it appears to be a matter of opinion as to whether she is considered to be up there with the greats..

Jared, to be honest I don´t find her very interesting, dutiful but dull. What I don´t find in her music making is individuality. I imagine someone who hates Martha Argerich will like Hewitt.
Last year she gave several concerts here, I went to a couple, and I found very telling that most people were discussing her dress rather than her performance!

[Jared]

^^ thanks for your honesty; I have come across this opinion before and opinion she certainly divides.

Mine is that I don't think I would want to hear her in every repertoire; the 'NOT Bach' CD has taught me that; her LvB Sonata 13 'Pathetique' which is played in it's entirety on here, is certainly a little clinical to the point of being sterile... but for me, somehow that fits with the almost mathematical style of Bach's piano music very well.

[jaybee]

[fergus]

I enjoyed this performance of the Goldberg variations. I felt that they were played with great artistry and sensitivity as indeed was the whole set. I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to Schiff in this music.

and I'm really pleased you're warming to the piano as an instrument, Fergus... Chopin next??

Eh, No Thank you!!!

[fergus]

Bach – Goldberg Variations:





I enjoyed this performance of the Goldberg variations. I felt that they were played with great artistry and sensitivity as indeed was the whole set. I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to Schiff in this music.

As you know dear Fergus, I prefer my Bach Kosher, but if it´s going to be on the piano I take any day Andras Schiff over Glenn Gould.

You know that I 100% agree with you on that Pepe but I think that we are a very small minority....of possibly two!!

[Diapason]

Three!

(I was at a very enjoyable harpsichord recital yesterday and the French Overture BWV 831 was played. I found myself thinking that it just couldn't possibly work on any other instrument.)

[Seán]

Three!

(I was at a very enjoyable harpsichord recital yesterday and the French Overture BWV 831 was played. I found myself thinking that it just couldn't possibly work on any other instrument.)

-1 here lads: because as a BI (Bach Ignoramus) I don't have any particular preferences to my listening Bach's music on the harpsichord over the piano.