Come on! Of course all I say is in a IMO bases! Keith Jarrett is a wonderful musician (I love in Köln Concert) but I don't like the way he plays Bach. Mind you: a friend of mine lent me a record with Jarrett's own pieces on the clavichord. He doesn't quite master the instrument (or perhaps he wants certain notes not quite stable in tune) but it is rather interesting and sometimes quite beautiful. I do think he is a marvelous musicia, even if I don't like to *watch* him play: that may work for him, but I find it rather distracting to see the pianist jumping about, and all that choreography. Still, this is not a critique: Bob van Asperen, playing the harpsicjhord seems to play an imaginary bass line with his feet. Brendel (an ugly man if ever there was one) puts up all sortds of faces in order - he says it, not me - to get the meaning across to the audience! I like to watch Kempff play. All the serenity, the beautifully high forehead, and all his marvelous musicianship...
As an apart. You won't catch organists pulling faces. You see, the sit hidden from the public. The only one I know that does, Jean Guillou (I met him last summer, and was invited to the console!!! That means he honoured me greaty (I am half French and my French name is rather impressive). He was quite a gentleman and good God, how marvelous is his technique!!! - well I lost track. The only one I know that pulls faces (but solemn ones) had an electric console put in the middle of the church and everyone sees him. Quite impressive, too, as he is a very elegant man.
All this is beside the point. I'm glad you were joking. I apologize if I was over toutchy. I often am, so I do apologize.
And, in all humility, I don't think 'everybody prefers my opinion to Jarrett's' as you say. This is a free world - well, up to a point. And finally it is true that I am a musician: I play the organ and the harpsichord and was formally trained. So that makes me a musician even if just an amateur.
