Re: GG Plays Sibelius

[Jeremy Clayton Smith <jcs@grove.ufl.EDU>]

They were also released in the "Edition" as SM2K 52654. They are some of
my favorite recordings, mostly because of the different sonorities. I have
not encountered any other GG recordings that sound quite like the
Sonatines. 


On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Bradley P Lehman wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, PHILIP.GARON wrote:
> 
> >              "And Glenn Gould's album of the otherwise unremarkable
> >           Sonatinas for piano has a fascinayting quirk that should
> >           make it irrestible to anybody interested in Gould and his
> >           philosophy.  He recorded the music with severeal microphones
> >           to capture the same performance from different vantage
> >           points and then used the tapes in the same way a movie
> >           director might coordinate a roomful of cameras.  And so one
> >           phrase might be in 'close-up' -- recorded only a few inches
> >           from the sounding-board of the piano -- and the next phrase
> >           might be far away, a 'long shot,' with the piano in the
> >           sonorous distance.  Whatever else this recording may be,
> >           it's unique; Gould never tried this experiment again."
> > 
> >           I had never heard about this recording being done by GG in
> >           this manner, and was wondering if any of the list-members
> >           who are familiar with it might comment.  Also, is it
> >           available on CD?
> 
> Yes, the Sibelius recordings are in one of the Glenn Gould Legacy boxes of
> a few years ago.  Gould used this technique with one of the Scriabin
> sonatas, also (similarly available in a Legacy box). 
> 
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> Bradley Lehman, bpl@umich.edu       http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl/  
> Submaster of the half-witticism, but only every other once in a while
> 
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