Fantastic music, but exhausting instrument

For his recordings of classical music, especially Bach's works, Keith Jarrett has indeed have plenty of take criticism. Especially with the "Goldberg Variations" purists put the bar very high, and many both Glenn Gould recordings from 1955 and 1981 are assumed to be the measure of all things. Jarrett, the tenor of the criticism, interpret the music does not (what else indeed masterfully dominant in his own free improvisation), but only play good notes on what was inconsistent with the spirit of Bach's music. In addition to classical music was not his genre and you feel just at the "Goldberg Variations" painful.
It must be said: How exactly Johann Sebastian Bach to the sound of his work presented, or as he himself has interpreted at the harpsichord or the piano, we do not know. The number of recordings from the Baroque period is more manageable. There is also for comparison with Gould neither harpsichord recording of the "Goldberg Variations" of Canadian exceptional pianist nor a corresponding piano version of Jarrett. Simila similibus conferantur!
The "Goldberg Variations" are wonderfully composed music and, if they are played by a rounder, already wonderful to listen per se. Whether there now in nuances one way or another variation a little more intense or gentle or "superficial" is interpreted, this is more of an academic question. The problem that I have with this CD, is not the composition or their interpretation by Jarrett, but rather the instrument. The "Goldberg Variations" have been composed for the harpsichord, certainly, but I'm piano music more ear than the longer duration but something "hard" sound of the harpsichord. A matter of taste, I know, but it is still a criterion for me.