Rosalyn Tureck: The Great Solo Works, Vol. 2 Main Performer or Conductor: Rosalyn Tureck Instrumentation: Piano Individual Works: Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 846 Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 847 Prelude and Fugue in C# Major, BWV 872 Prelude and Fugue in G Major, BWV 884 English Suite No.3 in G Minor, BWV 808 Sonata in D Minor, BWV 964 Italian Concerto, BWV 971 Format: Compact Disc Record Label: VAIA Catalog Number: VAIA 1051 Year Released/Recorded: 1993 Total Playing Time: 71'02 Comments: Marc Levitt said: Tureck's English Suite no.3 is the most electrifying performance of this piece I have ever heard; the Sonata in D Minor, BWV 964 is dazzling; the four sets of Preludes and Fugues from the Well Tempered Clavier, Books 1 & 2, are excellent, and whet one's tongue for the complete WTC by Rosalyn Tureck; the Italian Concerto is excellent though I think Tureck's performance of it on the 2CD set with Charles Rosen playing the Art of the Fugue is even better, perhaps the finest verion of the Italian Concerto I have ever heard. The insert to this CD says, "Her CDs are among the monuments of Bach interpretation," Piero Rattalino, Piano Time (2/93) Certainly, this CD, along with Rosalyn Tureck Plays Bach: The Great Solo Works, Vol. 1, Rosalyn Tureck Plays Bach (Partitas nos. 1,2, and 6), and The Goldberg Variations - all on the VAI label - are among the greatest Bach piano recordings I know. Acknowledgements: Thank you to the following for submitting this recording and for your comments: Marc Levitt Date First Submitted: 04/21/2006 Purchasing: Suggested Purchasing Sources Note: Inclusion in this database does not guarantee the availability of any recording. Some recordings may be out-of-print or no longer available.