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Kalman Olah Trio: Contrasts + Parallels

Read "Contrasts + Parallels" reviewed by Mark Sabbatini

by Mark Sabbatini
August 24, 2004

There's a reason so many musicians perform modern interpretations of Bach: do almost anything to his compositions and they still sound great.

Skeptical? Try this: download his Brandenburg Concertos from the internet in MIDI format ( www.bachcentral.com has an excellent selection of his work available for free) and change the instruments to anything except percussion (heck, even that may work). The results will nearly always be pleasing and harmonically correct.

If that's too technical, then consider ...