September 14, 2005

• Lutheran Rhythm, continued:

  Square-Wheel Rhythm

  (See previous entry.)

  “This is a sane and sensible interpretation, deeply musicianly and
  devoid of eccentricity. Her attitude, rather like Toscanini’s, is to
  accept the text com’ e scritto (for example, she adopts the
  ‘square-wheel’ rhythm of the E minor Gigue) and then to make legitimate
  adjustments….”

  

  – Lionel Salter, review of
    Angela Hewitt playing
      Bach’s partitas, in particular: 

  

  Bach’s “square-wheel” rhythm

  (Gigue from Partita No. 6
  in E Minor, BWV 830)

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