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On > So it seems that the only way to get the 57 recording
of this incredible >Fugue on CD is to buy the Sony Jacket Collection. It is also available, along with the F-sharp minor fugue
recorded for the ’57 Partita recording, on the GG Edition release of the
’55 Goldbergs. >(unfortunately
reality is back after 5 minutes of listening). At least it is >also very touching and important to me, to see that GG
performs this >essential work in nearly the same way at the beginning
and the end of >his life as an artist... Yes, the ’57 E-major fugue times in at would perform
often the same piece at radically different tempi, on the whole his tempi were
_much_ slower later in his life. Has anyone here read the Tim Page article about the
perceived tempi difference between the
’55 and ’82 Goldbergs which appeared in (I think) the March
’01 edition of GlenGould
magazine?? Any
comments? Dominic |