GG RE: GLENN GOULD BASHING!! (fwd)

["Junichi Miyazawa" <Junichi_Miyazawa@msn.com>]

Hi Frank,
As Klmmoor mentioned,  this must be the famous GG-LB 
performance in April 1962 (April 4 & 8, according to the Friedrich bi
o).

The unauthorized recording with LB's speech has released
several times.

I am not sure the newsgroup mail is accurate, for
the story I have is a bit different:

On the first evening, GG played the Brahms #1
at the enormously slow tempo with LB's introductory speech.
The authorative critic Harold Schonberg (i.e. Homer Siberius, as
GG called), wrote a harsh review saying GG played
so slowly because he could not play it  with the reqired
fast tempo.

According to John Roberts, who told me the story in 1992,
GG got upset when he read the bad review,
and on the next evening, he decided to play at the very fast tempo
just to show he had the ability to play it fast.

I would love to listen to the faster version.

Regards,

Junichi, Tokyo
 

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From: 	frank@clark.net
Sent: 	Sunday, December 22, 1996 7:37 AM
To: 	f_minor; Gould-L
Subject: 	Re: GLENN GOULD BASHING!! (fwd)

ALERT! I've never heard this. If anyone knows, please post to
rec.music.classical and to rec.music.classical.recordings.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 13:48:40 -0600
From: Dean Lampe <dlampe@tic.bisman.com>
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
Subject: Re: GLENN GOULD BASHING!!

Eric Barnhill wrote:

> Do you know the details of the recording? It's not an authentic liv
e
> session. It combines two different concerts that Gould and Bernstei
n did
> of this concerto. My teacher saw both of them and knew Bernstein so
mewhat
> well and has attested to this in the past.
> 
> You see, the first night Bernstein took a substantially faster temp
o than
> Gould wanted (believe it or not). He was only willing to do Gould's
 tempo
> if he could make a little speech before, as a disclaimer, and this 
he did
> at the second concert. However, he was so horrified by the final re
sults
> that when he put the recording together he grafted his speech onto 
the
> earlier, more tolerable version of the piece.
> 
> By more than one live account of both concerts, they were just awfu
l.
> 
> I'm not going to get ensconced in the Gould debate (maybe my stance
 is
> somewhat clear from just this) but this recording is not the real t
hing.
> And Bernstein was not happy with Gould or with what happened.
> 
> Eric

Please cite the recording that you are making reference to.  Label, n
umber 
and date would be sufficient.  Thanks.
-- 
Best regards,
Dean



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