Re: GG: Bach You Can't Live Without / & Stern & Casals

[Jim Morrison <jim_morrison@sprynet.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bradley Lehman" <bpl@UMICH.EDU>
>
> If the question was "which 8 minutes of Bach must go to the desert
> island?", I think a candidate would have to be the slow movement of the
> violin/oboe concerto, with Stern and Marcel Tabuteau conducted by Casals,
1950.
>
>

I've never heard the recording, but I picked up Oscar Shumsky and Robin
Miller's
recording with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.  Does it even come close?


How to work Gould into this post?

Nope, can't do it.   Sorry.


Jim


How about this.  My favorite eight minutes of Gould/Bach are the last eight
minutes of the 55 Goldbergs.

Does that count?