Maria Yudina plays Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (3/8)

[indigoblue555]

Often unrefined and harsh...but somehow

hurting and charming at the same time.

One minute she drives me crazy and a bit

later on she can be even obnoxious.

So I wonder why I go on listening to her playing and I already know I will go on.....

I wish I could listen to more Bach by this

lady....alas I see that so little is available.

[CeaserXIX]

Why do you say "unrefined and harsh"? Of course it is personal, but to me this music is  just the opposite.

[indigoblue555]

@CeaserXIX - my comment was spotted on her rendition,not on this piece of music itself.

It may be that my english needs being improved as well....and my terms do not correctly fit the

impression I was trying to depict.

Anyhow,that's roughly how she sounds to me (time by time) and at the same time that's why her playing is amazingly charming .

I saw a comment saying "she's beyond music":

well put on my opinion.

[BachScholar]

Listening to this with a new perspective, I recant my earlier statement that #13 is aggressive. I actually think it's nice now, although I don't like some of her abrupt staccatos. #14 though is very unrefined and rough. It sounds labored.

[ohrenbrausen]

She's beyond music

[BachScholar]

I find Var. 13 too aggressive and not lyrical enough. Yudina in general has a very harsh and aggressive style. These are very far from being the best Goldberg set, as some claim.

[goldberg72]

nn ho parole...

[antoinezygfryd]

Impressionnante version sans compromis!