Martins WTC Book 2

João Carlos Martins’ 1964 traversal of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book Two proves as equally confrontational and iconoclastic as the 24-year-old pianist’s Book One. Yet, by

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Martins Bach WTC Book 1

My reactions to João Carlos Martins’ Bach recordings from the 1980s and ’90s ranged from grudging admiration (his Partitas and French Overture) to outright annoyance

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