[CAUT] Glenn Gould/Bach stuff

[Michelle Stranges]

Aww Andy!!

Thanx for your post!

I'm going to listen to this some more but I don't know if I can ever  
get past the double striking I'm hearing all over the place.
You didn't mention this regulation problem in your post..

You DID hear that too didn't you??

:o

Thanx again for your letter!

:)
michelle
On Feb 24, 2006, at 2:45 PM, Andy Rudoff wrote:

> >I *refuse* to believe someone didn't hear this.
> >
> >Especially Glenn.
>
> Michelle,
>
> I am a huge Glenn Gould fan and own just about everything he ever  
> recorded.
> But many of his recordings are controversial, some because he made  
> unusual
> choices about tempo or style, some because people don't like his  
> humming.
>
> But the Two and Three Part Inventions is one of the most controversial
> and die hard fans like me know the story.  His piano, a Steinway known
> as "CD 318" had been dropped, ruined.  His piano technician told him
> it was totaled.  Glenn himself fiddled with it and probably didn't
> help the situation.  But he insisted on recording the Inventions using
> that piano.  When Columbia released the recording, they included a
> sort of apologetic note about the piano noises.
>
> Thankfully Gould was eventually convinced to give up on that piano.
> For example, his second (digital) of the Goldberg Variations was
> on a Yamaha CFIII.
>
> Like many, you'll probably end up either loving Gould's style or
> hating it.  I don't even hear the humming and other noises anymore,
> but then I am a long-time Gould convert.
>
> -andy
>
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