Re: GG: Other pianists?

[Neil Tingley <neil@music.demon.co.uk>]

In message <841270232.16669.0@ukiah.demon.co.uk>, Alun Severn
<alun@ukiah.demon.co.uk> writes
>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?
>
Sokolov is the only artist who's Bach I love and at times prefer to GG.
His recording of the Art of the Fugue and the 2nd Partita should testify
to that.
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