Amateurs 2007: Ellen Dodson plays Bach

[surlyq]

Actually, Bach himself offers no tempo indication so the artist is somewhat free to go where the music leads.

[nidute5]

But fugue is ANDANTE...

[SeitanoShuuki]

Wonderful. Love how much she is into the music. This is the second out of the who-knows-how-many versions of this song I've heard and has stirred my heart. (The first, BTW, was Gould's. Wonderful man, that one.) There is a bit of unease in the prelude before the recapitulation, but other than that, very enjoyable. Fugue is wonderful.

[truxaltom]

Thank you for sharing!

[dreamalittlemore]

My favouite of all Bachs P&F. Fugue is played definitely better than the prelude. Overall great performance. Best perfomance of this I have heard is certainly by Gould.

[adistar]

This woman reminds me the Great pianist Maria Yudina...

[pianoboyo]

define 'romantic' ...string players dont have the same concept of dry ugly bach as pianists do. We should be informed by how Bach writes for his other instrumental and vocal combinations too as well as studying organology..we have a piano full of possibilities - there is NO one way.

[tuberowz47]

Exquisitely difficult among the P&Fs. Well done!

[palcsi]

Beautiful!

[jimntominbalto]

Bach is not a romantic composer

[lejicane]

Agreed! Not convincing at all, don't like this at all ...

[surlyq]

Disagree! Bach is the ultimate (and maybe the first) Romantic composer. This performance is wonderful.

[truxaltom]

Agreed!

[stchang88]

Beautiful, alert, intelligent playing.