Donald Satz writes: >Generally, I find Barenboim a highly rewarding pianist except >for his infrequent forays into Bach territory. Barenboim appeared on the TV yesterday on the Culture Show on BBC2 talking about Bach. He said he wanted to make Bach emotional. He played a few excerpts from the Bach Well Tempered Clavier which I felt rather indifferent to. He saw the pieces as seminal to Western Music, without there would be no Wagner or Beethoven. The interviewer wondered if the piano was incapable of colour so Barenboim played some phrases saying that this makes it more like a trumpet. It still sounded like a piano played staccato to me. I prefer the old LPs I have of Barenboim playing the Mozart Piano concertos and Beethoven sonatas. Tim Horwood