Singers of the Century: Gitta Alpár in Operetta, Film & Opera

Bach's "The Well-Tempered Piano" is one of the most well-known works of music literature, and this recording of the first book with Edith Picht-Axenfeld is without doubt one of the greatest productions of all. As a much sought-after professor, she taught piano at the Hochschule fur Musik in Freiburg. She represented a spiritual, meditative way of dealing with the piano, in which purely mechanical exercises, including finger exercises and etudes, had no place. In her opinion, the soloist's entire body served as an instrument - and it is precisely this approach that can be felt in this recording. Edith Picht Axenfeld not only plays this music with great virtuosity, she almost internalizes it. The result is an interpretation that is second to none.