RE: G.G. the Silver Jubilee

["Junichi Miyazawa" <walkingtune@bigfoot.com>]

Dear Toshiyuki,

I am not sure you will find worth listening to
the 1981 version of the Italian Concerto
and the radio drama "Critics Call-Out",
but if you decide to listen to them,
I strongly recommend you to buy the Japanese edition
of *Silver Jubilee Album*, for you are a Japanese.

Because the booklet of the Japanese edition from 
Sony Classical Tokyo contains the complete Japanese 
translations of "Critics' Call-Out" as well as 
"A Glenn Gould Fantasy".

The Japanese booklet also carries a linernote
in Japanese.  It is a critical note of six pages 
by a Japanese researcher describing how the original 
Silver Jubilee Album was made after a long history.
The note also explains an episode when the the original
Silver Jibilee Album (LP) was relased in Japan in 1981.
According to the note, the Japanese album was 
a single LP, that is,  only "Disc One" was available,
and Disc Two "Fantasy" not.
Do you know how were Japanese Gouldian able to
listen to "Fantasy"?  "Fantasy" was relased by mail order
for those who had bought the single album at record shops.

Moreover, The Japanese edition might be a little more useful,
becasuse the second disc of the Japanese edition
has *three* tracks: two for "Fantasy" and one for "Call-Out".
That means you can start listening to "Fantasy" from Side B
of the original LP album. (On the other hand, the Disc Two of 
the world-wide version has only two tracks: one for "Fantasy" 
and another for "Call-Out".)

Regards,

Junichi

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