![]() 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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