Donald Satz:

>Sony dumped its superb "Vivarte" series that specialized in baroque
>and classical-era music but continues to deluge us with Bach recordings
>from Murray Perahia.  I find this frustrating, given that Perahia is not
>usually idiomatic in baroque music.  Actually, he's not idiomatic in any
>music - it's always Perahia plays Perahia.  His Handel/Scarlatti recording
>was particularly "out in left field".  Yes, his pianism is top-rate and
>he is quite appealing in a generic sense, but what ever happened to
>trying to get into the composer's psyche?

Not to disagree with any of this, but I wonder if this is not true also
of Horowitz, whose celebrated recording of Scarlatti strikes me as more
Horowitz than Scarlatti, especially compared to the Scarlatti of, say,
Gieseking, which was crisp, perky and delightful.

Jim Tobin