in Piano International (Jan, 2016)
Apparently Alexandre Tharaud took nine months off giving concerts purely to prepare for his first performance of Bach’s variation masterpiece in Barcelona in 2011. Intriguingly, there is not only this CD plus DVD account available but also an LP (not reviewed here), a response perhaps to a vinyl renaissance.
Tharaud has spoken of the luxury of, for example, spending five hours on one bar during his sabbatical, and there is certainly a dizzying attention to detail on display here. Try the pearly articulation of the second variation or, at a higher velocity, the fifth, or the perfect weight accorded to each and every note in the slower variations.
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