Sandy wrote:
> In article <SU4ui.18796$ug3.4643@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Mark & Steven Bornfeld
> <bornfeldmung@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>
>> Can someone recommend a recording?
>
> Dear Bornfelds,
>
> Really I'm recommending an organist, Simon Preston.
>
> Unable to get Simon Preston, I have a crappy 2CD set of "The Art of
> Fugue" played instead by the execrable Wolfgang Rubsam. Maybe Rubsam
> was on Prozac or Ritalin, it's so badly played. I only listen to it
> when I have a migraine. Anyway, at the end of it is an *appalling*
> version of the Passacaglia and fugue. Phil Collins could do better.
>
> Now, on the other hand, I have a SUPERB 14 CD set of Simon Preston
> playing JS Bach's organ works (Deutsche Grammophon). Simon Preston is a
> great artist, and his Bach orgelwerk recordings are very sensitive to
> the church acoustics and sonorities of many famous baroque organs in
> Europe. He has a very strong feel for tempo, the emotions of voicing
> (organ stops), voice (fugue!) lines, and rhythmic drive. And like the
> pianist Claudio Arrau, you don't hear _him_, but only who he's
> interpreting. The 6th CD has the Passacaglia and fugue. That
> Passacaglia, wow, it soars up through the heavens every time; it makes
> me catch my breath and cry it's so beautiful.
>
> I hope one day that Simon Preston records "The Art of Fugue".
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Sandy
Thanks for the tip--I'll look into Simon Preston
There's got to be something better for the migraines than Bach on Ritalin.
Thanks,
Steve
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