I have spent my Sunday enjoyably reading The New York Times first special
millenium issue "The Best"

Charles Rosen's article on the Best Piano Composition of the Millenium was
intriquing.  He chose J S Bach's "The Musical Offering.  It being, he said,
the one piece that Bach specifically wrote for "the recently invented
piano".  "like the Art of the Fugue" he writes, the work "has been arranged
for other instruments.  but it is essentially a work that has to be played
on a keyboard."

I have searched the Penquin guide at least and find it performed by ASMf,
Neville Mariner, and a transcription for guitar.  Does any lister know of
a recording of this work done on piano? Is Rosen correct when he concludes
that "pianists have yet to claim the greatest of fugues as their own."

Ed Beach