Donald Satz wrote: >I recently acquired another version of Bach's Art of the Fugue performed >by the group "Phantasm" on the Simax label. Don shares, I know, my love of Art of Fugue and I was interested to read his review of the Phantasm recording. I know the Keller well and have enjoyed it enormously. But recently I purchased the Hysperion XX version on Auvidis which I find nothing short of superb. Use here is made of old instruments and this gives a feeling of authenticity to this arrangement. Of course, we all know that Art of Fugue was originally for keyboard (and for that I prefer - you guessed it - Leonhardt's majestic reading), but I feel that it is a work of such extraordinary depth and breadth that any version helps add new insight to what I believe is one of the greatest musical masterpieces ever. Even, I may add, in another version Don mentioned some time ago - the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields with Marriner - which I bought following his mention of it. Not the best, by a long chalk, but somehow one to which I return with some regularity. The clean lines make the progress of the counterpoint very accessible. Jonathan