Margaret Mikulska writes of Nikolayeva'a Well Tempered Clavier:

>....Nikolayeva's very heavy-handed to put it gently.

She is on the heavy side in that body of works, but her Art of Fugue on
Hyperion is a much better proposition.

>To me, she's much better suited to Shostakovich's Preludes & Fugues.

Agreed.  Actually, I think both her Shostakovich Opus 87 sets are miles
ahead of the recorded competition including that from Ashkenazy and
Scherbakov.

Don Satz