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| | BACH: English Suite No. 1 in A Major, BWV 806; English Suite No. 4 in F Major, BWV 809; 6 French Suites, BWV 812-817 — ... |
 | | Winner of the 1950 Bach Leipzig Piano Competition, Tatiana Nikolayeva (1924-1994) made a great reputation as a virtuoso-pedagogue in Russia and in the Soviet bloc countries, but only found fame in the West in the 1980s with the relaxation of political tensions. |
 | | Sober and facile, Nikolayeva’s keyboard style has an elegant clarity of line, a light hand, a vigorous rhythmic propulsion, and a resourceful control of her dynamic palette. |
 | | Although Nikolayeva’s staccato runs are fierce, they likewise emanate a rounded dynamically shaded tone, so her illusion of legato or over-legato is of a single cloth, a piercing yet eminently dance-like effect. |
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