[f_minor] Lest we forget

James Norman Reid Dobbs dobbsnorman at gmail.com
Fri Sep 16 02:22:51 MDT 2016


Thank you, Maryellen. I add another vote for the transcendance of this
performance. I think the fourth is the most beautiful of the partitas and
Gould found its essence.

I had the good fortune to be a student at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto
in the late 50s and early 60s. Of course Gould was talked about constantly,
and in the late 50s was still performing publicly. I think I have spent a
good part of my adult life learning music that I first heard played by
Gould, including this partita.

Thank you again.

Norman Dobbs

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 4:18 AM, maryellen jensen <
maryellenjensen28 at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Back to the Partitas; back to the WTC Books 1 and 2.
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> Our GG's birthday is coming up soon. I read recently "If it's Baroque
> don't fix it": er and ehm and uh and ... did GG fix it? Did he successfully
> rescue Baroque from the clutches of Romanticism at least for long enough
> to give us all a deep breath? I think so, I think he did. Anyway, GG didn't
> fix Baroque - Baroque fixed him.
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> Partita Four, *unbelievably marvellous in every way possible:*
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> *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKWtc5LtPJg
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKWtc5LtPJg>*
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKWtc5LtPJg>
> Bach: “Partita No. 4, BWV 828” (Glenn Gould, 1962) - YouTube
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKWtc5LtPJg>
> www.youtube.com
> Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) “Partita No. 4 in D major, BWV 828”
> Glenn Gould, piano 11 – 12 December 1962, 19 – 20 March & 9 April 1962 ...
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> Send in your favourite pieces please if you can. It's the least we can do
> for such a singular, superb artist and I would love to listen to it all.
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> Mary Jensen
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