Joshua Rifkin: 10 CD's for a Desert Island

"The American pianist, musicologist and conductor Joshua Rifkin is one of the outstanding musical polymaths of our day. Educated at Julliard School of Music, Rifkin later studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Darmstadt. In the field of popular music he is particularly associated with the revival of interest in the ragtime composer Scott Joplin. His most important contribution to the field of scholarship has been his research on Bach's choruses, work that led to his controversial claims that Bach employed only one voice per part. Rifkin has put his theories to the test in a number of recordings, most notably a Mass in B minor recorded for Nonesuch..."

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