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RE: GG: Mozart

To: "f-minor" <f_minor@email.rutgers.edu>
Subject: RE: GG: Mozart
From: Tim Conway <tpconway@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 97 08:54:02 +1000
Cc: "Cynthia K Harris" <ckh0003@jove.acs.unt.edu>
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Cynthia said:

>I've been listening to the 4 CD's of Mozart Sonatas a lot lately, and I've
>enjoyed them very, very much.
>
>As a lifelong amateur pianist, I REALLY disliked these sonatas.  I found
>them boring, uninspired, without much substance.  I would try to take time
>to learn them, but just found no pleasure in playing them.  Then I heard
>the Gould recordings and heard something in them that I never recognized
>before...etc, etc

I agree with all of Cyndie's comments about Gould's interpretations of 
the Mozart sonatas. They (the interpretations) are fabulous. Why do so 
many people denigrate them?


Tim
<tpconway@ozemail.com.au>

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