Truly remarkable
This DVD, in the space of a few days since purchase, has become one of the favorites in my growing collection. It offers three great works for the piano played by three artists who understand them and have the technique to do with this fiercesome music as they wish. Each work presents enormous technical difficulty, as well as severe intellectual challenges. Andras Schiff, who plays Bach's Goldberg Variations, fulfills this job description most successfully of all. I have never enjoyed Glen Gould's coldly technical approach to this work and much peferred the humanity that Roslyn Tureck brings to it. Schiff's interpretation and playing style are closer to Tureck, but he adds a poetic dimension that is not present in the latter's otherwise admirable performances, as well as investing the work with a wonderful spirituality. Daniel Barenboim's is a more aloof performance. The Diabelli Variations are Beethoven at his most austere, and they go on a long time. I have never heard them in...
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