Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte
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I was going to write that I hope you move to a better place soon, pasto - but that doesn't sound at all like what I meant! I hope the sentiments come from behind the clumsy words 
Chen Pi-Hhsien is a superb artist - one of the great but largely unsung pianists: I didn't know she'd recorded the Goldbergs
I was interested the other day when you posted your reactions to the Jeremy Denk recording a week or so ago. This was a disc that was reviewed on CD Review when it was first released: I was in the car headed for the local supermarket, and I thought "Ah - who needs another piano recording of the Goldbergs?" A few bars into one of the excerpts, and I was hooked, and for the remainder of the "article", I was sitting in my car in the supermarket car park, completely captivated by how Denk transformed the work into piano terms. I had to buy the disc, and I have listened to it many, many times in the years since. By contrast, it was Ms Hewitt's recording that was one of the many that made me think that I would never need another piano recording of the work.
Remarkable how a work as huge as this "adapts" itself to so many different "treatments" and readings, each appealing to different audiences to console, inspire, and enliven our moods as we need them.
Best Wishes.
Chen Pi-Hhsien is a superb artist - one of the great but largely unsung pianists: I didn't know she'd recorded the Goldbergs
I was interested the other day when you posted your reactions to the Jeremy Denk recording a week or so ago. This was a disc that was reviewed on CD Review when it was first released: I was in the car headed for the local supermarket, and I thought "Ah - who needs another piano recording of the Goldbergs?" A few bars into one of the excerpts, and I was hooked, and for the remainder of the "article", I was sitting in my car in the supermarket car park, completely captivated by how Denk transformed the work into piano terms. I had to buy the disc, and I have listened to it many, many times in the years since. By contrast, it was Ms Hewitt's recording that was one of the many that made me think that I would never need another piano recording of the work.
Remarkable how a work as huge as this "adapts" itself to so many different "treatments" and readings, each appealing to different audiences to console, inspire, and enliven our moods as we need them.
Best Wishes.
Just work crap! Who knows, maybe the next 17 years will be better! 
I need to listen to the Denk cd again although I LOVED the DVD. Extremely informative and well presented.
A small 'confession'. In 1988, I got a job teaching in a school in Perthshire and the day before I left, I bought the Pinnock Harpsichord from a second hand cd shop next to the Queen's Hall here in Edinburgh. However, every time I played it, something bad would happen until I felt that cd was jinxed! I looked for it just now but I can see no sign of it so it's possible I either traded it in or I gave it away.
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