RE: My First Time......:)

["Cline, Eric" <Eric.Cline@reichhold.com>]

There is also another recording of GG playing this particular concerto
with Dmitri Mitropolous and (the Concertgebouworkest - I think). It is a
very different performance than the one with Bernstein.  For one thing
he plays it much faster in the outer movements. Breathtaking
performance. Unfortunately it is a bootleg recording so that GG's estate
doesn't make any money. It is coupled with a performance of the
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin
Philharmonic- also a really great performance ! 

Now I have a question. I used to have a CD recording of GG playing the
Bach d minor concerto with Bernstein. It was part of Columbia's "Great
Performances" series. I loaned the recording to someone and never got it
back. Later, I obtained the CBS Masterworks CD release of the Bach
Concerti coupled with GG's recording of "The Art of the Fugue". The
cover lists this performance of the d minor concerto not with Bernstein,
but with Vladimir Golschmann. DId GG make two recordings of this
concerto for CBS or is it a typo and Bernstein is really the conductor ?



Eric Cline x 8116 
R & D Chemist 
Emulsion and Energy Curable Polymer Synthesis 
Sun Chemical Business Team 
e-mail: eric.cline@reichhold.com



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> From: 	Arin Murphy[SMTP:la_murph@alcor.concordia.ca]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, February 24, 1998 2:43 PM
> To: 	na2
> Cc: 	f_minor@email.rutgers.edu
> Subject: 	Re: My First Time......:)
> 
> 
> On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, na2 wrote:
>  
> > The first time I heard GG was on an old record my mother used to
> play of
> > Bach's "Piano" Concerto No1 in D Minor. I am haunted to this day by
> what
> > GG communicated to me on this performance.
> > I have searched for years (pre-Internet) for a version of this
> > recording. My main problem in not having the original in my
> possesion is
> > that I can't be sure which version it was. I think it was on CBS,
> maybe
> > with Bernstein(?), and I assume it was in mono.
> > 
> > This recording has coloured my appreciation/enjoyement of all
> subsequent
> > recordings I have heard and it is my task this year to track down
> that
> > particular performance and to secure a copy so that I may be
> > instrumental in spoiling my children's appreciation for anything but
> the
> > real deal ..!!
> 
> I too intend to corrupt my children by playing GOuld for them from the
> time they're in the womb until they leave the house!
> 
> I'm not at home so I can't check, but I think the Sony Glenn Gould
> collection double CD set of Back keyboard concertos begins with that
> Bernstein recording. I'm pretty sure. I know it's Bernstein, I know
> it's
> mono, I'm pretty darn sure it's #1. And both CDs are worth owning.
> It's
> one of the ones I listen to the most.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Arin Murphy
> 
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