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Byline: Lawson Taitte
BACH "Well-Tempered Clavier" Daniel Barenboim (Warner Classics 2564-61553-2) Grade: A-
The Argentine-Israeli pianist-conductor revealed his insight into Bach with his "Goldberg Variations" some years back. Now he has gone on to the first volume of Bach's masterwork, the first 24 of the famous 48 preludes and fugues.
Barenboim emphatically demonstrates a point of view in this music. Nobody since Wanda Landowska and Edwin Fischer, a half century ago, has dared to treat this music with such reverent solemnity. Even in the faster music, he avoids the light-hearted buoyancy most project. But it's in the long, massive slow ...