Richard Tsuyuki asks:
>... Specifically, I was wondering if anyone would care to recommend *two*
>recordings of the *same* work, one period and one modern.
No better place to start than with Bach. After completing the following
comparisons, you'll appreciate that a non-HIP recording rarely does justice
to Bach's compositional genius.
Bach
Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin
van Dael (Naxos)/Grumiaux (Philips)
Gamba sonata
Savall & Koopman (Alia Vox)/Maisky & Argerich (DG)
Goldberg Variations
Hantai (Opus 111)/Schiff (Decca)
Frank