GG: changed passages?

[Sivan Etedgee <sme@cisunix.unh.edu>]

Bradley P Lehman wrote:

> And as Bazzana points out, GG's understanding of Bach (and other
> composers) was heavily filtered through the work of Schoenberg: motivic
> ideas, analytical methods, etc.  It *is* possible that GG changed the note
> deliberately due to some analysis of his, using those habits of
> "improving" the compositions to better satisfy what he thought the
> composer's intentions were or should have been.  Bazzana cites examples in
> other repertoire (Mozart, Gibbons, etc.) where GG attempted to "correct"
> passages he thought could be improved.  That's a performer's choice.  GG
> had no qualms about doubling some of the bass in the Goldberg Variations
> (last few variations) to "improve" the sonority.
>
> But I think it's more likely he simply played from a variant edition.
> There are plenty of them out there.  Czerny's, for example, is especially
> variant, as it is supposed to be a record of the way Beethoven played the
> WTC: dynamics, changed notes, changed registers, etc.  Anybody want to
> look up the catalog of GG's possessions, find which edition(s) of the WTC
> he had, and then check that directly?
>
> Another possibility is that GG and his producer simply missed it, through
> a misreading or whatever.  They weren't perfect.  I've still never
> understood why GG let his Bach Toccatas go out to the world with so many
> splice/pitch problems, or his Art of Fugue album with its hideously
> out-of-tune moments that could have been fixed with about 15 minutes' work
> by an organ tuner.
>
> Bradley Lehman ~ Harrisonburg VA, USA ~ 38.45716N+78.94565W
> bpl@umich.edu ~ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl/


Bradley, or anyone else -
  I don't have access to Bazzana's book, and I am very curious as to the examples
of passages that Gould altered in order to "improve" the music.  If it wouldn't
be to much trouble, could you cite the given examples?
thank you,
  Sivan