He is, imo, the greatest pianist ever to have lived.
YMMV
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 1:10 PM, chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 29/09/12 20:29, Max Richards wrote:
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>> my wife and I listen to some of his Bach in the car
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyjqVWo-1pU&feature=related
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> Listening to the Goldberg variations on mp3. A new Bach.
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> Why have I not heard these played like this before?
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> My guess, given the recording dates, is we would have considered this cheap
> and commercial, in my art school youth. This youth was the era of conceptual
> art, and how much were we elitist artistic snobs.
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