Juilliard Quartet (60’s recording)
Sony

Incidentally, I feel this way about just about every Perahia recording I've ever heard.Tiger wrote:I prefer each of the 4 Gould versions. Perahia's account is a good one, but I don't find anything special in it.
I could see how one would think that. Then I listen to the Finales of the Hammerklavier, op.59 no.3 and Sonata No.28 again and think better of the notion!Tarantella wrote:(and, some would say, that Beethoven never really 'mastered' the fugue).