Re: My name is Matthew, and I have a problem...

[Jim Morrison <jim_morrison@SPRYNET.COM>]

Hi Matthew,

Yeah, I've got a live recording of this work, but I'm not sharing it with
anybody!  ;-)

Just kidding.

I will share.

No, wait, I meant:just kidding; I don't have a recording.


Sorry, Matthew, but I don't have any information that can help you sleep,
but just off the top of my head I'd bet on the simplest answer and say that
Gould never got around to recording the concerto because he gave up
recording ALL concertos.

I'll have to check the recording dates, but I fairly sure that some of
Gould's very last concerto recordings were those of the Bach.  He just gave
up the concerto format before he could record a complete set, perhaps.

Every heard the Seattle Baroque harpsichord versions of these harpsichord
concerto?  Fantastic.  My first choice for these works.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harding.Matthew" <Matthew.Harding@CIC.GC.CA>
To: <F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 2:00 PM
Subject: My name is Matthew, and I have a problem...


OK, this has been bothering me for years. I thought I could have figured
it out by now through the literature and research, but I can't find
ANYTHING. My question is this:

Nowhere in the recorded history of the universe can I find any evidence
that GG ever played, recorded or was even familiar with Bach's Keyboard
concerto #6 in F Major (BWV 1057). What gives? He obviously adored the
concerti, played them frequently, recorded them all EXCEPT #6. Why??

I do know it is a reworking of the brandeburg #4. Does this possibly
have something to do with it? I sincerely doubt it, since JSB and GG
were never shy about re-usnig material.

The only mention I have ever found is on the NLC web site, although
there are quite a few typos on these pages and this could possible be
one of them:

Type: Concert
Place: Stratford, Ontario (Festival Theatre)
Event: Stratford Festival
Content: Bach: Violin Sonata no. 1
Bach: Cantata no. 170
Bach: Concerto no. 6 (Brandenburg Concerto no. 4)
Performer(s): Glenn Gould, Oscar Shumsky (violin), Nicholas Fiore
(flute), Robert Aitken (flute), Carolyn Stanford, members of the
National Festival Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
Date: 1963 Jul 7 (Sunday)

Any ideas??? Is anyone lucky enough to have actually attended this
concert, or knows someone who did? Please help me sleep at night!!!

Thanks,
Matthew