Re: GG: Other pianists?

[Alan <alan@amanda.dorsai.org>]

YES.
 My dear friend in Birmingham , UK:
    a) Maria Tipo with the Partitas,
and b)  Jorge Demus with the Goldbergs.

NO blasphemy, just 'others' trying their best.
alan@dorsai.org
nyc/us

On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Alun Severn wrote:

> OK, this may well be anathema -- so go ahead, shoot me down -- but does
> anyone out there like Bach played on piano by *anyone* other than GG? If
> so, whom? At the insistence of various friends I've tried a number of other
> pianists. The only one I can say that I have enjoyed -- who hasn't sounded
> either dull or pedestrian or too romantic or too dramatic or too loud or
> not dry enough in tone or any one of a hundred other complaints -- is
> Charles Rosen's G'bergs. Oh, and sometimes Brendel (who I've always thought
> looks like a kind father figure). Offers?
> 
> - regards,    Alun
> 
> 28/8/96
> 11:06 pm
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