Bach: Goldberg Variations
Murray Perahia
Sony Classical (2000), 16/44
This is a wonderful recording. Classics Today said of this recording,
“What makes Perahia so special, though, is his masterful application of the piano’s tone colors and dynamic contrasts to Bach’s music in a way that is at once personal and totally convincing. Artists as individually outstanding as Gould, Tureck, Koroliov, and Schiff have all found solutions that are equally valid, but none, I think, have ever made the music sound so naturally, joyously at home on the modern piano as has Perahia... Perahia has given us a recording for the ages, no doubt about it.”
