Too many pianists play these bourées too fast…because they can! The bourée was a relaxed sort of folk dance (before the upper class appropriated it). Tureck exhibits the right amount of restraint here. She does play a wrong note in the first Bourée, LH, beginning of the B section. .
00:00 Bourrées I & II
03:37 Gigue
06:50 Echo
adorable!
Extraordinary.
Up to now I preferred Sokolov's version. But this is even better transparent and swinging.
Too many pianists play these bourées too fast…because they can! The bourée was a relaxed sort of folk dance (before the upper class appropriated it). Tureck exhibits the right amount of restraint here. She does play a wrong note in the first Bourée, LH, beginning of the B section.
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