At the dawn of his week in Montreal with the OSM, relayed worldwide on Wednesday by the Mezzo cameras, Bruce Liu sees the appearance, this Friday, of a “novelty” DG: the French suite noh 5 of Bach. The marketing of recordings is now dizzying. In practice, it is 13 minutes of music available only for on-demand listening and downloading! And we realize that DG has already offered 6 minutes of Rameau: The tender complaintsin June 2022, and The hen, in August 2022. This frustrating drip dusting is amazing, as Warner had experimented with it a long time ago for Alexandre Tharaud. Alain Lanceron, director of Warner Classics, had concluded that the process was useless when these tracks were not attached to an album release. We can therefore only hope for a baroque album by Bruce Liu. His game is fine, equal, distinguished. The absence of covers in Bach makes the artist go luminously to the essential (Sarabande, Gavotte) and his Gigue is at the level of Pogorelich playing the English Suites.
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