![]() ![]() Well, that’s silly, so here is – acknowledging the still inherently subjective nature of such lists – a “Top Ten” that tries to avoid that bias and (probably) substitute it with some other, perhaps more subtle bias. ![]() ![]() have not made meaningful contributions to the genre of Bach recordings at all. Their list, 90% Anglocentric, reads almost as if the Italians, the French, the Dutch, the Germans, Czech, or Japanese etc. And indeed, when they published a “ 10 Best Bach Recordings” list early last year, they topped it in such a ridiculous way that it needed soft rebutting which I hope to provide hereby. “Proximity bias” or “mere exposure effect” might be the appropriate euphemism for them being unabashed homers. In my time as a clerk at Tower Records, we would sometimes make fun of Gramophone Magazine’s rather obvious pro-English biases. ![]()
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