Re: GG...and that harpsichord

[Jim Morrison <jim_morrison@sprynet.com>]

> At 10:40 PM 7/9/2000 -0700, Jim Morrison wrote:
> >I'm still listening to the infamous Handel disc in question, and I must
say
> >I do enjoy the prelude to Bach f# fugue, BMV 883, track 27.
> >Gould seems to have gotten the odd sounding harpsichord right on this
piece.
>
> ...But he didn't use the buff stop on that one.

It think Bradley has hit upon the truth that I don't much care for the
buffstop, although I do love that word buffstop.  A street corner for
gigolos?  A nude beach?  A dirty pink feather duster that lays across the
strings?

>And his WHAM WHAM WHAM keyboard touch on both those pieces
> is even more brutal than on the Handel....  <shudder>


Have you seen him play the Bach on video?  It doesn't look like he's
brutalizing the keys (the colors of which are transposed, by the way, from
the piano's.  Is that normal?)  He's just your average business man working
away at the keyboard sitting on his presswood desk.

> And the 16-foot stop
> is horribly out of tune........

Now I kind of like that sound, thinking it adds to the atmosphere of what I
hear as another otherworldly/pantemporal piece.
As I was saying, to my novice ear this is his most successful "odd"
harpsichord track.  But then again, I like Legiti's toneclusters, so that
may be a strike or two against me right there.

Bradley's two favorite tracks, 2 and 11, both Allemandes I noticed, sound
like recognizable harpsichord playing to me.  Are they odd, Bradley?

Jim