Bach: Six Partitas | Classical CD review

Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca, two CDs)It's three years now since Vladimir Ashkenazy said that he would not be appearing in public again as a pianist. That retirement, though, has thankfully not extended to the recording studio, and since then Ashkenazy has released a disc of two-piano music by Debussy and Ravel, and now this survey of Bach's partitas, which builds on an outstanding set of The Well-Tempered Clavier released several years ago. These latest Bach performances, though, never quite reach...

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