These are excellent, lively Bach performances. Vladimir Feltsman plays the harpsichord parts with discretion on the piano, avoiding Romantic mannerisms and keeping to good Baroque style throughout. He also decorates the text as he goes along, a practice Bach would have recognized and appreciated. The little orchestra, although led by someone who is occupied elsewhere, never sounds rudderless and always plays its important lines with feeling. Aside from Glenn Gould, whose playing of these concertos is too detached for some listeners, Feltsman really has the field to himself in this music. The excellent recorded sound far surpasses Gould"s. --Leslie Gerber