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...variation. However, Perahia has obviously studied the score with great attention to detail, as his treatment of inner voices and his sense of direction in the fundamental bass clearly show. If you don't want to go with the extremes of a dionysian Gould (1955) or a puritan Rosalyn Tureck (1999), this is the recording to get. A- -Anthony Cheung
...Basically Bach festival gave Westenburg an opportunity to make himself and his performers the whole show -which he rejected. "That's fine for a genius like Karajan," he says. "I wanted people to be able to sample various ways of looking at Bach." So he brought in Rosalyn Tureck for an intensely wrought solo recital on harpsichord and piano. Margaret Hillis, director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, led a sometimes wayward program of vocal and orchestral works that ended solidly on the Magnificat. Harpsichordist Anthony Newman "and friends" sped their dazzling, often unorthodox way through an evening of chamber...
Robbins was inspired to his choreography by a concert of Pianist Rosalyn Tureck. "I felt when I first heard her play the Variations," he says, "that it was a journey, a trip, that it took you in a tremendous arc through a whole cycle of life and then, as it were, back to the beginning." The words apply not only to the music, but to the ballet that Robbins created...
...compositions generally sound better in the home than in a large concert hall. In 1949, there were 15 Bach albums on the market; today there are more than 500-including 24 rival versions of the complete Brandenburg Concertos, and 12 interpretations of the B-Minor Mass. Says Pianist Rosalyn Tureck, founder of the International Bach Society for specialized study of the composer: "The great fire under all of this is the direct meaning that Bach has for us as contemporary persons. He is a phenomenon of our time...
While the results of the competition .did nothing to challenge male pre-eminence in Bach, they did indicate that the ladies, whose number has included such superb stylists as Wanda Landowska and Rosalyn Tureck, may know something about Bach's music that men don't. Contest Founder-President Raissa Tselentis does not go so far as to say that Bach, the father of 20 children, was not a manly composer. But she does suggest that "we women tend to be more spiritual. It is the spiritual side of women that responds to Bach...