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How is Bach routinely butchered, and do you have recommended recordings of Bach's keyboard works (let's say WTC and the inventions/sinfonias)?

• d13 5y ago
  Glenn Gould was unsurpassed.
  • User23 5y ago
    It's indisputable that he was a virtuoso on the keyboard, but unfortunately he accompanied that with annoying humming that many recordings pick up way too much of.
• y7 5y ago
  Maybe try Nikolayeva's recordings? WTC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNpwAZf6thY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNpwAZf6thY Inventions and sinfonias: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bL7oyuqEwA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bL7oyuqEwA Lots of people recommend Gould in this thread. Check out the difference of the first invention in the link above with the first invention of Gould, and see what you prefer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQot-jM6FSw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQot-jM6FSw
• tkgally 5y ago
  I don't have an opinion about whether anyone has butchered Bach or not, but, after listening to a half-dozen interpretations of the WTC (all on piano), I find that I like Zhu Xiao-Mei's the best.
• kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
  Harpsichord parts played on piano...