Re: GG: Mozart

[Alun Severn <alun@ukiah.demon.co.uk>]

Tag Gallagher <tag@sprynet.com> said:

     >          ...>I've spent most of my life trying to play
     >          Mozart piano sonatas and>looking for recordings
     >          of them that I like, and in forty years I've
     >          only>heard one really "adequate" performance,
     >          and that was Gould's Salzburg>1959 of K. 330. >>
     >          The mystery of "Gould versus Mozart" is how the
     >          same person could>produce this amazingly
     >          sensitive performance and also the ugly
     >          Columbia>set.
     >

Having just been checking the details of the set of Mozart sonatas released
on Sony (4 x CDs; SM4K 52627), I wonder if this is the "ugly Columbia set"
-- and if so, why is it (ugly, I mean).

- best,    Alun

27/8/96
12:02 pm

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