At 23:19 09-02-17, J. Claudio Di Veroli wrote:

 >Famous players in some areas seem to "come in waves".

 >When I was a young man studying in London, about half the top organ recitals
 >were by Lionel Rogg and Daniel Chorzempa. I was impressed at how good they
 >were, until I realised it was mostly them again and again, while there were
 >many other similarly good players who were largely out of sight.

Some of this seems to have been due to the influence of 
recordings.  I recall that Rogg made a series of recordings at that 
time that was widely praised as a breath of fresh air.  Certainly, as 
far as Europe was concerned, before him had been (in reverse order) 
in this series Karl Richter, Helmut Walcha, Fernando Germani, Albert 
Schweitzer...  Of these, only Walcha recorded the "complete" Bach, 
the others being restricted to the better known works, but the 
recordings were definitely influential and each in its time was 
pronounced to be the most up to date view of "how Bach liked his 
music to be heard".  I retain an affection for them all, particularly 
the heroic blind Walcha.

En passant, without going into detail, one can note a similar series 
of cellists who recorded the Suites, beginning with Casals...

David

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