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RE: Wagner?


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> From: 	Teun Q. D. Waverijn[SMTP:WaverijnConcerts@hetnet.nl]
> Sent: 	15 December 1998 20:19
> To: 	Thayer A
> Subject: 	Re: Wagner?
> 
> I'm a young Gould fan as well (19), and I was quit surprised by the answer
> you gave mister Rulla, for I gave him basically the same.
> 
> What I didn't know that multi- tracking was used for the recording. I
> don't exactly know what it is. Does it imply that he didn't play the whole
> piece 'at once', ?but he recorded it in different takes? 
> 
> Me and a friend of mine, where astonished about the 'meistersinger
> transcription'. We both play piano, and we believed ?it could not be
> possible to play the piece without having a third hand (like I wrote
> mister Rulla). 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> T W, Maarssen, Netherlands.
> 
Dear Teun,

> Yeah, that's right. I can't remember where I read about it now, but he
> recorded it first on one track, then recorded over it while listening on
> head phones, to fill in all the missing voices. I know this was done in
> the meistersingers, but I am not certain if it was used at all in the
> other transcriptions. I believe that Joanna Macgregor has used the same
> technique in recording the player-piano studies by Nancarrow. It would be
> interesting to know if Gould may have used more rubato, had he not needed
> to dub the extra parts in (although I doubt he would have) as it can not
> be easy to get everything to fit together perfectly. One also wonders if
> he may have used this technique in other recordings of pieces intended for
> two hands, eg. Bach's Fugues etc. to attain the perfection and consistency
> of phrasing in the voices. Presumably he would not have been bothered by
> the 'ethics' of doing so. Does anyone have any views on this, or know
> anything about whether he may have done so?
> 
> Andrew Thayer,
> 
> PS. Does anyone know if Gould wrote his transcriptions down, or if they
> have been dictated? I am also having trouble getting the Gould videos,
> which are delisted in Great Britain. Does anyone know any way of getting
> them now? Any help would be much appreciated.
>