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Re: GG: Mozart
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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