Title: Honest and Clean, but short of profound
Product review: I have difficulty summing up what I felt about this highly-marketed release by Andras Schiff. It's honest and there's a consistent aesthetic point of view applied between each pair of preludes and fugues. This, for me, makes it a nice "reference recording," one you can always come back to.An apt comparison is the set by Edward Aldwell; I think Schiff's is better. Compared to Jarrett's book 1 on ECM, this is much better. But I also like the idea of using Bach's music to inject a little creativity into the performance. Fredrich Gulda, therefore, is a favorite of mine on piano. Schiff's own nuances are far more subtle, but they are there, at least in enough of the performances.That's why I'd say they are, as as set, short of profound... instead they're honest, well-done, and well-captured.
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