The Well Tempered Clavier, NI 2516/9 r Feltsman Bach performances are both scholarly and revealing. He has an irrefutably keen sense of rhythmic control and achieves this whilst maintaining the most careful shadings of contrapuntal voicing and crisp execution. The result is a collection of refined interpretations that is in a class if its own.?br /> Patrick P.L. Lam ?musicweb-international.com
Goldberg Variations, NI 2507 eltsman touch is very deliberate, delicate, and of weightless elegance in the aria, though never recious? Very early on it becomes clear that Feltsman plays Bach more as if he were on a harpsichord than any pianist I have heard, but he doesn do it in the Gould way of trying to make the piano sound like the harpsichord it isn. No repeat is exactly as the first ?there are always changes in registration, ornamentation, or voicing ?sometimes all of them together. That can sound idiosyncratic, even here, but sufficient musical sensibility and taste prevent the playing from ever becoming a display of wayward vulgarity.