Dave Pitzer wrote:

>It's not too much of a stretch, I think, that for the *general*
>Bach-recording-buying public faced with a reading by, say, Andras
>Schiff and Gould, would opt for the recording without the accompaniment.
>Several here have said as much.

But they don't opt for the recording without the accompaniment; they opt
for Gould.  Are you sure it's "several"? I had no idea I was surrounded.

Oh well, the main thing is that we have a great wealth of performance
excellence and variety of interpretation that allows each of us to listen
to Bach just the way we want.

Don Satz
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