| Levit caught that awesome doubleness: in his enigmatic brilliance, he is Bachian to the core. |
| Critics can perch smugly on the mountain-top of Bachian metaphysics. |
| Maliphant has a Bachian combination of powerful body yet consummate lightness of touch, and not a shred of self-absorption. |
| All are imbued with a devout simplicity that contrasts strongly with the elaborations of their Bachian successors. |
| Finally the monumental Gigue begins, with a real Bachian grandeur, leaving for the end the exhilarating semi-quaver passages so evocative of the above-mentioned subdued lightness. |
| In ways, the music is very Bachian but there is also a touch of Haydnian heroics that makes the music very approachable. |
