Re[2]: GG: Shuffling

[mwilliamson@alston.com]

     Well, that is right with respect to the 1982 (1981?) 
     recording.  The 63 (?) recording is of course a different 
     matter.  Now I am not an expert on record issues and 
     numbers, but I remember buying the 81/82 CD when it came 
     out.  Digital RECORDS started coming out when I was in 
     college but they were funny things:  you got rid of all that 
     tape hiss but still heard all that vinyl pop.  So CDs, as 
     you all remember, were a very big deal.  When those players 
     started coming out, there were at first only a handful of 
     CDs that you could even get.  One of them was definitely 
     GG's re-recording of the GVs; you could find it anywhere CDs 
     were sold, along with 3 or 4 others.  Although you could get 
     it on a digital record too.  I bought a CD player right away 
     (even though I was very poor) and of course the first CD I 
     bought was the GVs, and I still have it.  There is no 
     question that it has only one track; when you load it in and 
     the machine boots up it says "1."  And it is really 
     annoying.
     
     You know, there are 2 things that are really curious about 
     that.  First, as some of you have already pointed out; the 
     entire work was not recorded that way.  It is very easy to 
     hear where the breaks were taken.  Second, I have many CDs 
     on which the track number changes even though you can tell 
     that there was no break during the recording.
     
     Anyway, it does not surprise me that later copies of that 
     recording have 32 tracks.


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Subject: Re: GG:  Shuffling
Author:  Daniel LaRusso <jcs@grove.ufl.EDU> at Internet
Date:    10/31/96 4:47 PM


     
     
     
     
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Scott Henderson wrote:
     
> >>My CD copy of the 81 Goldbergs has only one track, containing all
> >>the variations and both arias.  Where did you find your copy with 34 
> >>tracks?
> >
> >I would ineed like to know what kind of CD copy YOU have of the Gouldbergs! 
> >One track!!! I have the issue that comes with the Glenn Gould Edition on
> >Sony. The CD number is Sony SMK 52619, and it has 32 tracks. Are there 
> >really CD's with no indexes for such an indexed work as the Goldberg
> >Variations? Please, details!
> 
> 
>         I have the same one-track version of the '81 Goldberg Variations. 
> When CBS Masterworks first released it in 1982 (MK37779) the aria and
> variations were lumped together in a single track.  It's a nuisance, when 
> you want to review the performance of a single variation, to have to
> fast-forward through several minutes of music.  When Sony reissued the 
> recording as part of the Glenn Gould Edition (SMK 52619), they wisely 
> partitioned it out onto 32 tracks.
> 
> 
> ______________________________
> 
> Scott Henderson, Ph.D.
> Director of Microscopy,
> Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
> Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy, 
> Box 1007,
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> 
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> 
> 
*I* have the '81 Goldbergs on a "Masterworks" CD (ie not the "edition"), 
and it has all 32 tracks. Hmmm.