by "Thomas Wood" <woodtj1685@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Aug 7, 2007 at 07:32 PM
"Mark & Steven Bornfeld" <bornfeldmung@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Can someone recommend a recording?
>
> TIA,
> Steve
I'm not always a huge E. Power Biggs fan, but he definitely had a way with
this piece. He seemed to pace it very effectively and let the drama build
naturally.
The best recording I've heard was the one Biggs made in the Thomaskirche
in
Leipzig. Unfortunately, as far as I know, no track from that LP has ever
been released on CD.
The recording Biggs made of the piece on Harvard's Flentrop organ is
almost
as good (a little more "square" and less rhapsodic, however). It's
available
on Sony's "Essential Classics" series.
Marie-Clarie Alain's recording from 1981 is quite good, too.
Tom Wood
