Bach Goldberg Variations

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milk

Quote from: Mandryka on June 12, 2023, 12:26:31 PMYes it's quite special stuff, I agree.

I just saw there's some Beethoven on YouTube - an Appassionata of all things - can't imagine what she makes of that one!
It says Julia Cload but artist, Daniel Barenboim so I don't know what to make of it.

Mandryka

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Quote from: milk on June 13, 2023, 08:30:16 PMIt says Julia Cload but artist, Daniel Barenboim so I don't know what to make of it.

Well I don't think it's this, just on the basis of the length of the first movement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdExPQpCoc&ab_channel=DanielBarenboim-Topic

But I'm not really interested in the music today, I am interested in DBT though, and she is here playing it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyK-Ycoj3xg&list=PLqMsu_N7j4npVUXW4TbY69IhAwJzi5gw_&index=3&ab_channel=Sonographologie

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Mandryka

#502
Pay attention everyone.

Interesting Goldbergs alert



https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/01/000114110.pdf

This guy's got a feel for how to make counterpoint sound interesting. Independent voices, coherent music.
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AnotherSpin

Quote from: Mandryka on October 20, 2023, 12:00:18 PMPay attention everyone.

Interesting Goldbergs alert



https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/01/000114110.pdf

This guy's got a feel for how to make counterpoint sound interesting. Independent voices, coherent music.

Very interesting reading. Thank you!

Mandryka

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I forgot I'd already discovered him!

Quote from: Mandryka on June 20, 2018, 02:00:30 PMDiego Ares is a student of Richard Egarr. He seems to be a bit of a Solar specialist, . Here he plays Bach on a harpsichord by Joel Katzman (2002)  "after" Pascal Taskin, 1769.


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Imaginative repeats, lyrical, a well balanced instrument with a good bass, and great sound.

At the level of affects, he does cheerful and he does tender and he does severe. He likes telling stories, in a way which makes me think of Hans Davidsson's Buxtehude, or better, Richard Egarr on the English Suites:

Most of all for me, I get the impression of real virtuosity in the service of entertainment: the colours of the harpsichord, the clarity of the music, the infectious rhythms and tunes. And a general feelgood factor - there ain't much darkness in these Goldbergs

He's succeeded IMO, this sounds fresh and original. I think it's is a valuable contribution for both the conception and the execution.

I think my attention got rather overwhelmed by Rubsam's Goldbergs, which were released shortly after Ares's. I think Rübsam may not be too disapproving of Ares in fact, though no doubt he would find it still too "chordal."

Just a brief anecdotal note. Last night I listened to the recording on little bookshelf speakers - Rogers JR149 Mk2. And this morning I'm hearing it on  the big system - Quad ESLs with a pair of dipole subwoofers. It sounds totally different! Totally!  I think I might prefer the Rogers presentation here actually. The big system is more truthful probably, but the better bass response  gives it a weightiness which I'm not sure is so good.
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