[f_minor] RES: Celebrating Gould in 2012

[JOSÉ MARCUS DE CASTRO MATTOS]

A QUESTION:

WHY GG NEVER PLAYED THE "CHACONNE" (PARTITA N. 02, BWV 1004, BACH-BUSONI)?

JOSÉ MARCUS DE CASTRO MATTOS
(RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL)

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De: f_minor-bounces at glenngould.org [mailto:f_minor-bounces at glenngould.org]
Em nome de Neil Tingley
Enviada em: quarta-feira, 9 de março de 2011 06:12
Para: Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.
Assunto: Re: [f_minor] Celebrating Gould in 2012

On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:22:03 -0500, James Atkins Pritchard
<jamesatkinspritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are some wonderful ideas here, especially the multimedia stage
> adaption of "The Idea of North".
> 
> A few other thoughts:
> 
> -a performance of the the Gould String Quartet
> 
> -aren't there some Gould transcriptions (e.g. Strauss) that have never
been
> performed?
> 
> -a performance of Hindemith's "Das Marienleben" (Gould loved this work)
> 
> -a performance of Strauss's "Enoch Arden"
> 
> -a recital of early English keyboard music (e.g. Bull, Byrd, Gibbons)
> played
> on the piano
> 
> -a piano recital including Wagner's Siegfried Idyll (and perhaps also
the
> Meistersinger Overture)
> 

But performances / concerts Gould hated, so recordings played to an
audience would be better ?

-- 
Cheers,

Neil