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Steven Schwartz <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 18 Mar 1999 08:19:33 -0600
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Peter Lynch:

>Has anyone heard this newly released recording? It is my first exposure
>to Tureck, whose Bach playing is legendary, it seems.  Based on her
>reputation, without really knowing what to expect, I anticipated being
>"blown away." Instead, I found myself taken aback by the slowness of the
>tempi, and the apparent sameness of the tempi, from variation to variation.

Which Tureck recording?  There are at least two.  I don't care much for the
one made for (then) CBS, and I consider myself a Tureck fan.

However, my favorite Goldbergs, even after all these years, has to be
Landowska's, with the first Gould a very close second.

Steve Schwartz

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