Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

When we speak we create our own time gesture...

Now listen Nikolayeva playing "the art of the fugue" by Bach, it seems she speak and not only use the notes as notes but as vowels and consonants in a prayer ascending like a song ...

Compare this with "perfect" Gould version which i like a lot too ...

But here Gould played the notes not as words of a prayer singing  but  more as notes linked with an external timing  in a perfect control percussive gesture for sure ...( we feel like Nikolayeva playing is more an improvisation instead)

It is my personal perception.... Anybody can feel otherwise for sure...

Nikolaeva :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOCSBnCvOOQ&list=RDLOCSBnCvOOQ&start_radio=1

Gould:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAwgP7wpCYM&list=PLfdMKJMGPPty3BvGUEGJeCidp-lJsk_xF

Remember : i enjoy the two musicians here. But one seems more ascending  in the depth...

The same goes for me with the astonishing comparison between two versions of the Well tempered Klavier of Bach i loved...

The Version of Vladimir Feltsman  is the one i loved the most  for the same reason compared to the magnificent  perfectly controlled version of  Andras Schiff:

There is plenty of others great versions of the klavier... I do not claim to know which is better... None is.... But i prefer those which is more akin to what i perceive as an internal gesture time dimension ....But i did not loose my pleasure listening the others as reading  any major  poets as Rilke for example  dont erase the pleasure to read minor but good one ...

Feltsman : 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhpUeXI1fBs&list=PLzI6BT2ZG_AdecV0laI3t5kYmAl8bhSnf

Schiff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFnwy1xtFRk&list=PL1gAgJIplj-ksyosRdPE_-4FVlkp2oIbo

Here two i enjoy these two versions the most compared to others...but my favorite is Feltsman ....

I walk four hours each day and i listened music (mostly Bach) on my Hidizs dap with excellent farsoo  kph40  headphone Koss  clone ...

I enjoy all Bach interpretations...I had at least 15 versions of "the art of the fugue" , probably the greatest musical work ever written. Interpretations i enjoy the most save the Felstman or Schiff one, is with Marriner  orchestra or with Ristenpart...But i like them all ...

During my recent return to records over the last few years, I opened a can of worms when I came upon a sealed copy of a Dimitris Sgouros (I'll have to dig out the title for you later) record. I honestly did not know who this kid was at the time. Belated 56th birthday to this kid who now shares my age hahaha. Time to revisit.

Liszt: Seven Transcendental Etudes

Which pianist do you recommend ?

Sgouros i imagine... I do not know him ... Thanks for this feed back ... I will listen ...

Liszt: Seven Transcendental Etudes