I do wish to make the point, however, that the Mordkovich recording is in my opinion highly over-rated. In the glorious Passacaglia, she simply over emotes, if that's the way to describe it. This is some of the most searing and intense music ever written, it dwells in the same realms as the slow movements from Beethoven's late quartets, with some of those gloriously sad Handel arias, with the most intense of Bach's arias and choruses. Mordkovich makes a mess of it, turns it into soap opera, Hollywood, heart on sleeve, UGH, it is a travesty. Listen to the nobility Kogan delivers in his recording with Kondrashin. Perhaps the problem might have lain with Mordkovitch's conductor, the ubiquitous Neemi Jarvi who has has the record, along with Neville Marriner, for the most faceless conducting in the history of conducting.
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