Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 1

Glenn Gould started as he meant to go on, including noisy humming for long stretches of the Partitas, which are wonderfully played. Enormous energy in the Concerto, then two very odd fugues. Michael Tanner

 

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Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:30 pm

COMPOSERS: JS Bach
LABELS: Naxos
WORKS: Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor; Partitas Nos 5 & 6 etc
PERFORMER: Glenn Gould (piano); Columbia SO/Leonard Bernstein
CATALOGUE NO: 8.112049

Glenn Gould started as he meant to go on, including noisy humming for long stretches of the Partitas, which are wonderfully played. Enormous energy in the Concerto, then two very odd fugues. Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.
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