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I replied to Felix Delbruck a few days ago:
>>As I've mentioned before, it took the Landowska recording to open my ears
>>to the Goldberg's. Ironically, now that I have also heard and appreciated
>>several other versions on both piano and harpsichord, I'm not nearly as
>>enamored of the Landowska as I was at first.
He, in turn asks me:
>I can't fathom what you now find objectionable in her performance. Does
>it have to do with her very interpretation of the work, or is it just that
>her instrument and rather striking colours have started to get on your
>nerves (ie is it her musical ideas or the way in which she presents them?)
I think it is the latter. My point was that her recording opened my ears
to the musical ideas that, for some reason, I had had trouble absorbing.
Then, having absorbed some of those ideas to the point where I was able to
appreciate the work, I was able to enjoy other recordings of it (both on
harpsichord and piano) that were a bit less "striking" in their colors.
AMong these is Leonhardt's harpsichord version that I recently heard on a
borrowed disc.
Frankly, I'm finding the same thing in listening to Joao Carlos Martins
various recordings; initially, I found them thrilling in their color and
'romantic" intensity. The more familiar I become with the music however,
the less I respond to this kind of interpretation of Bach.
Ed
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