Re: Passacaglia and fugue Cmin BWV 582

Thomas Wood wrote:
> "Mark & Steven Bornfeld" <bornfeldmung@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message

> news:SU4ui.18796$ug3.4643@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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 
> 
> 

	Thanks for the tips.

Steve