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MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 13 AND 17 (Columbia). French Pianist Philippe Entremont, 34, makes his recording debut as conductor in addition to playing the piano solos. There is plenty of precedent for the dual role: Bach at the keyboard, Mozart at the violin, playing and leading simultaneously. Entremont the conductor picked Mozart "because of the relatively small forces involved and the relatively simple rhythms," but it is Entremont the pianist who makes this a masterly record. Set off by the responsive but docile Collegium Musicum of Paris, his special gifts of musical veracity and taste enhance familiar music and make...
DINU LIPATTI (Angel 3556). Last Recital-Chopin, Bach and Schubert played by the great Rumanian pianist who died...
...Back to Bach...
...Your report of the Munich Bach Festival [July 5] mentions two ways of playing Bach: 1) the rigid, as-written style; 2) the free, "swinging" style used by Karl Richter, Landowska and others...
Actually, the efforts of these people to "swing" is doomed to failure because they have continued to use the modern keyboard fingering. As a result, they can produce only the same da da da da rigidity that has led 90% of the public to detest Bach. The real baroque fingering style of Bach was reputed to sound like a conversation. Anyone can restore the "speaking-swinging" style to Bach by singing it with the old flute tonguing: did'll did'll, or even the scat syllables: da ba da ba of the Swingle Singers...