To find the direct ancestors to these Bach performances by Russian pianist Jacob Katsnelson, you have to go back past Vladimir Ashkenazy to the old Russian school of Bach playing by the likes of Samuel Feinberg. Katsnelson doesn't strictly resemble Feinberg, but his approach to articulation is as extreme as Feinberg's to tempo: listen to him whale on the keys in the Gigue of the Suite for keyboard in A minor, BWV 818a. The average listener is likely to suspect that Bach would hardly have recognized his own music in some of ...
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To find the direct ancestors to these Bach performances by Russian pianist Jacob Katsnelson, you have to go back past Vladimir Ashkenazy to the old Russian school of Bach playing by the likes of Samuel Feinberg. Katsnelson doesn't strictly resemble Feinberg, but his approach to articulation is as extreme as Feinberg's to tempo: listen to him whale on the keys in the Gigue of the Suite for keyboard in A minor, BWV 818a. The average listener is likely to suspect that Bach would hardly have recognized his own music in some of these performances that use every resource of the piano and dismiss any attempt at historical verisimilitude by referring to the instrument used as a "regular" piano; it is a Steingraber concert grand from Germany, and the album was made on the company premises and very nicely recorded. The best news is that Katsnelson plays a very unusual Bach work here and does it appealingly. The Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo, BWV 992 (Capriccio on the Departure of a...
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