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There is something amusingly ironic about the phenomenon. Keyboard master Friedrich Gulda plays pieces originally composed by J.S. Bach for beginners on a modern piano that Bach might have felt was a machine lowered from Mars. If he knew about Mars.
The result is not historically accurate in any rigid sense of the term. Just superb.
That does it for me. This recording is best owned along with a performance on something closer to the ‘original instrument’. But it also stands alone as an assertive, modern, tough-minded interpretation of one of Western music’s grand deities.
No one has ever done fugue like Bach. It is virtually his native musical tongue.
Fans of the 1993 film ‘The Remains of the Day’ (Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve) will welcome the Prelude #2 in C, though they may not have known at the time whence came that beguiling musical theme from this reviewer’s favorite movie.
The good folks at Philips Classics (Duo) are once again to be commended for wise choices.
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