Reference Recording: Two Scholarly Pianists At Their Bachian Best

Jed Distler

Artistic Quality:

10

Sound Quality:

8

This long-deleted Essential Classics reissue (available again courtesy of Arkivmusic.com’s […]

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Recording Details:

Album Title: BACH--THE KEYBOARD ALBUM
Reference Recording: The Art of Fugue: Koroliov (Tacet)

BACH, J.S.:
Selected Short Works; Prelude and Fugue in A minor BMV 895; Suite in F minor BWV 823 (incomplete); Aria and Ten Variations in the Italian Style; Suite in A major BWV 824 (composed by Telemann, attributed to Bach); Italian Concerto in F major BWV 971; The Art of Fugue BWV 1080

Soloist: Rosen, Charles
Soloist: Tureck, Rosalyn

Record Label: Sony Classical - 63231
Medium: CD

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