Title: choices
Review: There really are, at present, only three possible recordings of these suites. Bill Christie made a set in 1983 and before that, in 1972 (!) Trevor Pinnock first embarked on recording the entire set. Pinnock's sound is pretty thin and his notes inegale a lot less crisp than Bill's. Bill's deep committment to and understanding of declamatory style is far better developed than Pinnock's but it sometimes makes a rather overplayed hand in his recordings. Their musical child, Christoph Rousset, here gives the afficianado another choice.What wealth! Who would have imagined in the age of Casadesus, Boulanger and Landowska that we would become so rich. Buy all three and have a piece of history on your music shelf. You cannot really go wrong with any one of them.
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