Re: GG: non-gg bach piano?

[Bradley P Lehman <bpl@umich.edu>]

On Wed, 27 May 1998, K. Berry wrote:

> The BWV's in question are something like:
> 820-22 832-35 837-40 841-45 896 897 901 909 918 920 921 923 944 945 947-9
> 954-5 956 958-9 960 963 965-987 990-1 993 1036 1040 1045
> (Many of these are probably not by Bach, but I don't care, I'm still
> interested in knowing about recordings of them.)
> 
> title: Take 2 - Keyboard album
> performers: Tureck, Rosen
> (various BWV Anh.)

Disc 1 has BWV 994, 512, 772a, 772, 917, 895, 823, 824 (Telemann), and the
Italian Concerto (971), plus the Aria Variata and the BWV Anhang #'s 126,
116, 115, 122, 127, 117a.  Those are all played by Tureck.  Disc 2 of the
set is Rosen's recording of the KdF.  Highly recommended for both discs. 

> title: From the W.F. Bach Notebook
> performer: Wolfgang Rübsam (piano)
> year: 1994
> label: Naxos
> catalog number: 8.553097
> (for BWV 836 et al.)
> Individual Works: Partita di Signore Stelzeln; Allemande; 3 Minuets
> 	From 9 Little Preludes: Preludes; Preludes; Fugue in C;
>         Suite in A; 5 Little Preludes.

Also highly recommended, but it certainly doesn't sound like GG.  Rubsam
is much more plastic with his tempos than GG, more capricious-sounding in
his phrasing.  Sort of a balletic physical approach (like Schiff's) as
opposed to GG's mental approach.  In his keyboard touch he gives me the
impression that he's treating the piano as if it were a clavichord.  I
like his ongoing series of the Bach works played on piano: this disc plus
the better-known pieces.  http://www.musicblvd.com/cgi-bin/tw/19076_43_304438

I notice you didn't list MusicBlvd among the places you've looked.  I've
been favorably impressed by their selection, prices, and service. 

Do you know any of the Godowsky transcriptions of the violin and cello
solo works?  Yikes.  Hyper-romantic harmonies and intricate textures.  The
violin sonatas are on Marco Polo 8223794 (see
http://www.musicblvd.com/cgi-bin/tw/19076_43_419550) and two cello suites
and some single movements are on Dorian 80117 (see
http://www.musicblvd.com/cgi-bin/tw/19076_43_139016). 

Bradley Lehman ~ Harrisonburg VA, USA ~ 38.45716N+78.94565W
bpl@umich.edu ~ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl/