Anybody ever heard Andrew Rangell'a piano
recordings? (Brad, that's your cue)
I recently bought a couple of his discs "A
recital of intimate works volumes one and two," released on Dorian in 1995 and
2000 and I am very impressed with them. While not really sounding like
Gould, there's a nice intensity, flow, originality and passion to his work
that reminds me of Gould's Byrd/Gibbons/Sweelinck. Of course, it helps
matters that on these discs Rangell plays not only Scarlatti, Brahms, Scriabin,
Messiaen, Bach/Petri, Froberger, but also Gibbons and Sweelinck! Anybody
heard his Goldbergs or Partitas? They must be first rate. While I'm
not in the market for another set of Partitas or Goldbergs I may just have to
get them.
Here's great qoute from Rangell on his recording: A
recital of intimate works, volume one.
"Taken together, the pieces comprising
this program bring to my mind an observation of Francis Bacon which I hope the
listener will find apt: "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some
strangeness in the proportion."
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- Andrew Rangell"
Here's a link to Rangell's page at
Dorian
Jim
PS: I saw at amazon.ca that Bazzana has a new
book about Gould coming out in September. Anybody know more about
it? That should be excellant. His book on Gould "The performer in
the work" is a must read.