Search - Maria Tipo :: Bach: Piano Works

Love this collection

piano teacher | 03/14/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is such an amazing collection performed by one of my favorite pianists. The price is unbeatable, and the interpretations are exquisite. Maria Tipo performs with incredible control---each note is placed exactly where she wants it. Her voicings in these contrapuntal works are astounding. I have performed a great deal of Bach, and have had many many students study Bach over the years, and I still turn to Tipo's Bach recordings for fresh insights and inspiration. Sometimes her rubato is a little excessive for my taste, but her tonal quality, her phrasings, and her understanding of counterpoint are breath-taking. I don't play everything like Tipo would, but I certainly respect her for the great beauty and artistry she achieves in her playing. Her Goldberg Variations recording is my favorite recording of this work. I also really love hearing the Little Preludes and Little Preludes with Fugues played as they should be played---with energy, expression, exciting tempos, voicing, etc. It gives my younger students who are studying these works a high standard to achieve in their own performances. The Partitas are filled with expression and life (I especially love her interpretation of the E-Minor Partita---listen to how clearly she articulates the fugue subject in the Toccata every time it appears).



Overall---great recording worth far more than they are charging!"

Bach partitas, Goldberg Variations and other

bdsil | Millwood, NY USA | 01/09/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"for me, Maria Tipo is the only pianist who performs Bach unaccompanied piano in the most satisfying manner; a notch above Andras Schiff and the more modern departure from the unemotional and dated approach of Glenn Gould."

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J. Lambie | LA, CA | 11/29/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"What a wonderful and wondrous set of discs. Sent a set to my friend David Noon, a professor and composer at the Manhattan School of Music. He threw a party for selected friends and students just to listen to her. He called them "astonishing". And folks, I couldn't agree more. If you like your Bach beautiful (and not everyone does...and that's okay), these are for you. Don't just sit there. Scroll up and start listening to the samples. Do NOT take my word for it; you got your ears on."