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Review title: Very good - an interesting meditation on the "Classic" world
Product review: It's brilliantly played, as the other reviewers have already pointed out. What's interesting to note is that the commercial death (or massive withering) of orchestral and other "classical" music can be illustrated here:Bach must have written these pieces essentially as "jams", progressions of the same melodic themes. Think of it as Jazz, or some of the free-style jams known to musically-competent bands from the 1960s. But most modern non-pop music in this vein always insists on being reproduced note by note, and takes the absolute talent of a Gould to showcase any noticable variation. I wonder how Bach would have responded to the quasi-religous adherence to note by note submission by lesser talents than Gould.
