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["L. Lalonde" <llalonde@lightspeed.net>]

Johnathan Mansfield wrote:
>
> Lori:  My CD copy of the 81 Goldbergs has only one track, containing all
> the variations and both arias.  Where did you find your copy with 34
> tracks?
>

Correction, it's 32 tracks.  I bought it off the shelf at Barnes and
Noble.


> Regarding your theory that GG would want us to listen to the Goldbergs
> "in order,"  for continuity's sake, I don't think that GG's practice bears this
> out.  I don't have the books beside me as I write, but I recall that GG was
> always recording things out of sequence, and splicing even whole
> sections of a single movement together from takes done on different
> days.  Read what the "Variations" Bio says about the sequence in which
> the later Goldbergs were recorded.
>

That's how he RECORDED it.  Of course he wanted to get the best
version possible and would record it whenever he felt so inspired.
However, as the LISTENER, I feel he would want us to experience it to
discover the progression and development of the theme.

:-) Lori