J.S. Bach: Toccata, Partita, English Suite 2/ Martha Argerich

J.S. Bach: Toccata, Partita, English Suite 2/ Martha Argerich | Johann Sebastian Bach, Martha Argerich | I'm delighted to see this record back in print

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J.S. Bach: Toccata...

	J.S. Bach: Toccata, Partita, English Suite 2/ Martha Argerich Johann Sebastian Bach, Martha Argerich Deutsche Grammophon, 2000 average customer review:based on 23 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Thank You, Thank You!

I am not a musicologist or a pianist but I can tell you what I hear on this CD. To paraphrase a comment I made about Toscanini, every note sounds human. Its as if the piano is the vocal cords of some powerful, agile, passionate, and sensitive animal-whose sole means of communication is by sound. This recording of Bach does not sound like a musical abstraction, like how most interpretations sound to me. Stylistically, Argerich's playing doesn't sound like a Romantic mannerism, and doesn't sound like a period affectation complete with powered wig. It sounds like I'v died and gone to Bach heaven; it seems like she tosses off the complex structure of the pieces with irresistible movement, immaculate timing, and with an affection I would call joy or love. And far from sounding like Argerich, the music sounds like...Bach. But I have that sense that with all the interpretations I have heard from Argerich, that Chopin sounds like Chopin, Ravel sounds like himself, Prokofiev etc.

I don't know if I made myself clear but I am raving! This is the greatest recording of any Bach music (orchestra, choral, whatever) I have ever heard. Thank you Martha!

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I'm delighted to see this record back in print

This has been my favourite record for 25 years and nothing has come along in that time to displace it. Essential for anyone who likes Argerich.

in response to the previous reviewer

I can't be so sure if Argerich's playing is really less clean than Tureck's although I think that Wanda Landowska (another woman!) could play cleaner than both, but Landowska played the harpsichord! Anyway, all of these 3 women are great in Bach.

A womens contest

Very little can be said on the performance after the previous reviews.

Bach, that composed for God, seems to be in better hands with women. Regardless of the hundreds of performances available, Argerich with Rosalyn Tureck stand out. Both are the best and the only difference is that Tureck playing is cleaner.

Buy this albun and the Goldber Variations with Tureck, and then you will be in Bach's heaven

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Clear, Clean Bach

The best way I can describe this performance is that Argerich plays like Glenn Gould, but without his background humming.

reviews: 1, 2, 3, page 4, 5

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