Re: GG: Gibbons = Gould

[Robert Gray <rgray@odyssee.net>]

Gould's Gibbons and Byrd recordings is available separatedly on Sony CD SMK
53589, and also, I believe, as part of vol. 3 of the Sony edition.


At 11:20 PM 16/01/97 +0000, you wrote:
>>>Having just returned from a wonderful trip to England, I have been dreaming
>>>about the great Tudor composer Orlando Gibbons and, of course, ruminating
>>>on how GG believed that it was this composer, among all others, with whom,
>>>at some unfathomable level, he most identified. [...]
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>Better organised readers of this list will no doubt refer you to the
>specific messages exploring Gibbons' music whih were weaving back and forth
>just a few weeks ago. You refer to "copy/ies being worn out" and I wonder
>if you are referring to:
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>Consort Musick of Byrd & Gibbons, GLENN GOULD, Sony (Canada?), WSK52589
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>which I believe is still in the Sony Canada catalog but unavailable in the
>UK (maybe throughout Europe too). If so -- I have a tape transfer from a
>v.old vinyl with dubious sound but it seems as you say a marvellously
>serene record. How can I get the current CD version??
>
>Best,  Alun
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>"...[it is] my sober conviction that no piano need feel
>    duty-bound to always sound like a piano."   - Glenn Gould
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