Re: Book recommendation

["Baldwin, Daniel" <baldwin@baermarks.com>]

I completely agree with Jim  -- Bazzana's book is fascinating, elegantly
written, insightful,and it has tremendous value even if (like me) you are a
layperson (music-wise).

On the subject of GG and Pastorals -- I love his recording of the symphony
transcription. It just so happens that another of my favorite GG recordings
is of the Pastoral sonata (no. 15 -- opus 28). This is a late GG rec.  --
somewhere between '79-81.  It has a relaxed, mellow and good-humored quality
-- "GG unwound." I think it is underrated. I judge this by the fact that it
has never come up in the conversations among us GG fans == at least since I
joined this list over a year ago (except Jim M. may have  mentioned it).

Regards --

Daniel

P.S Murray Perahia's rec. of Goldbergs is my 14th, and I rate it very high
on my personal list -- up there with the GG Salzburg version, Christiane
Jaccottet, R. Hill, and Schepkin. MP's version is the most emotionally
affecting one I have heard. His playing has a beautiful singing tone, and he
articulates the contrapuntal lines clearly, but not at all heavy- handedly
[unlike our hero in some parts of the '81 rec. with the sledgehammer bass
line (please pardon the blasphemy)].Don't get me wrong -- I like that
version, but there is a fine line between being stimulatingly eccentric and
mannered, and GG sometimes crosses the line in the '81 rec.



-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Morrison [mailto:jim_morrison@SPRYNET.COM]
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 1:50 PM
To: F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU
Subject: Re: Book recommendation


> btw, If you know of any book on GG that's out there worth reading, I'll
> be glad to know...
>
> thanks
>
> kostas

One last thing and then I'm offline and on my way to work.

If you want to read about Gould the man, read the Friedrich bio,
and watch the on and off the record video.

If you want to know about Gould the musician, by far the best
work I've seen on him is Bazzana's The Performer in the Work.
And I mean by far.  No comparison. Hands down.
 I can't recommend it highly enough.  It's well worth the money
and comes with a great disc of Gould's music that illustrates what
Bazzana is writing about.

Bye

Jim