Structurally, he observes all the repeats, but he sounds so natural that, unlike in one recent recording, I stopped paying attention to them after a while and lost myself in the sound. Also, his ornamentations are a total delight throughout: they never sound self-conscious, but instead casual and relaxed deeply considered but sounding as though touched out with remarkable ease. ‘This is by a country mile the finest Goldberg Variations I’ve heard, on any instrument, since Angela Hewitt’s (also on Hyperion: what’s their secret?!) … Kolesnikov’s playing sparkles throughout … the sensitivity of Kolesnikov’s touch meets a sharp intelligence of approach and a determined refusal to follow convention for its own sake.
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