[f_minor] "Discussion of the Canadian pianist GG & Tureck

[Lynne Ittleman]

but among the cognoscenti
Tureck's name automatically
was associated w/Bach
granted other pianists played Bach
but not like Tureck
its like comparing Goulds Bach
to Emmanuel Ax.

On 14 August 2010 12:43, Brad Lehman <bpl at umich.edu> wrote:

> On 8/14/2010 8:58 AM, Lynne Ittleman wrote:
>
>> Greetings
>> As I'm well past 60 & spent
>> 8 yrs getting 2 degrees in music
>> & "discovered" GG
>> during the Nixon administration
>> (the only good thing i can
>> think of regarding tricky)
>> prior to that there was no
>> Bach interpreter other than
>> Tureck
>> EVERYBODY KNEW THAT!
>> Bach & Tureck went together
>> like salt & pepper
>> i had the records & she was
>> my muse until Gould came
>> on the scene
>> there was not anyone else
>> associated w/bach
>> not in new york or cincinnati
>> anyway   (...)
>>
>
> No records by Wanda Landowska from the 1930s-50s, Ralph Kirkpatrick from
> the 1940s forward, Sylvia Marlowe from the 1950s, Gustav Leonhardt from the
> 1950s forward, or Igor Kipnis from the 1960s?  Those are some of the giants!
>
>
> Brad Lehman
>
>


-- 
Tatiana Gehtopfskaya,
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