Jazz Articles about Till Fellner

Till Fellner: Inventionen und Sinfonien / Franzosische Suite V

by C. Michael Bailey
May 4, 2009

The available recorded music of Johann Sebastian Bach is like sex and pizza: even the worst is still pretty good. This is particularly true of the composer's keyboard music performed on modern piano. Beginning with Glenn Gould in 1955, through recordings by Andras Schiff, Angela Hewitt, and Murray Perahia in the 1980s, '90s, and '00s, Bach finds himself well represented in the marketplace.

This high level of available recordings is hard to match. On the rare occasions when ...