RE: non-gg bach piano?

["Williamson, Mark" <MWilliamson@alston.com>]

Well, Rosalyn Tureck is certainly one to listen to.  I can also
recommend a recording of the 2d Partita, the 2d English Suite, and a c
minor Toccata by Martha Argerich which IMHO is not unlike the Gould
style, which is one of my favorites.

There are also pianists who IMHO play Bach more fluidly, sonorously,
etc. than Mr. Gould, and in particularly there are Busoni transcriptions
of chorale preludes etc. which lend themselves to that style.  There is
an excellent recording by Alfred Brendel of some of those Busoni works
and also the Italian Concerto and other works.  I also recently heard a
recording of some of those Busoni works by Awagadgin Pratt (sp?) which
was very nice.  And I have heard a number of Bach recording by Andras
Schiff which were very impressive.  I heard him play the 6th French
Suite on the radio just a month or so ago.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	K. Berry [SMTP:kb@cs.umb.edu]
> Sent:	Wednesday, May 27, 1998 10:49 AM
> To:	f_minor@email.rutgers.edu
> Subject:	GG: non-gg bach piano?
> 
> A while back we discussed non-GG piano recordings of Bach.  Recently
> I've been trying to find exactly such -- for the Bach chamber and
> (especially) solo keyboard works which GG did *not* record.  These are
> hard to come by (except for the complete Art of Fugue).  All those
> odds and ends of preludes, fugues, sonatas, transcribed concertos,
> etc.,
> etc. have been recorded much more on harpsichord, it seems.
> 
> I have yet to find a classical search that lets you search on
> instrument.  So I've been searching for performers:
> Rosalyn Tureck   Andras Schiff    Murray Perahia
> Angela Hewitt    Grigory Sokolov  Mari-Elizabeth Morgen
> Martha Argerich  Jorge Demus      Maria Tipo
> 
> I've looked through the recordings at jsbach.org, cdnow.com,
> cdconnection.com, cduniverse.com, towerrecords.com, cdchoice.com.
> 
> If anyone has any other clues (especially known recordings, also other
> performers, other sites) or suggestions as to which performers are
> ``closest'' to GG, I'd love to hear about them.  Old LP's are good to
> know about, too.  They're usually easier to find than CD's, actually.
> 
> 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.)
> 
> Here are the whopping five records I've found so far with *any* piano
> recording of a Bach work not recorded by GG.  Thanks ...
> 
> 
> title: Brendel plays Bach
> (for BWV 922, 904)
> 
> title: Take 2 - Keyboard album
> performers: Tureck, Rosen
> (various BWV Anh.)
> 
> title: J.S. Bach: Piano Works
> performer: Rosalyn Tureck
> year: 1993
> label: VAI Audio
> catalog number: 1041
> (for BWV 968, 992)
> 
> title: French Suites
> performer: Angela Hewitt (piano)
> year: 1995
> label: Hyperion
> catalog number: CDA67121/2
> (for BWV 939, 964 et al.)
> 
> 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.