The Beauty that is Baroque

I like how Stern and Perlman interpret this Bach piece, and the faithfulness to Baroque aesthetics. 節制，均衡，收斂之美。Surely Bach's music is not in want of emotive qualities (far from it in fact--it always moves me boundlessly--on a transcendent, different level that is transports you), but even with his Largo one needs to maintain certain discipline, rather than slipping into a somehow natural state of self indulgence. As one of my piano teachers once said to me whilst I was playing a Bach piece, "You make it sound like Chopin." ;-)

For me, Nathan Milstein is another true Bach virtuoso.


Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern play Bach Double Concerto