GG: Live

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

        Hello F minoreans! Where have we all been lately?

        The Salzburg Concert CD is fantastic, and the Brahms Cto #1 w/
Bernstein is fascinating. Are there other GG live recordings (particularly
before a concert audience) that any of you would recommend, either for
quality of performance, or for historical interest? Live recordings
frequently reveal aspects of an artist that are not apparent from studio
recordings.  This is especially so in the case of GG, who viewed the studio
as a "laboratory" for the creation of performances which might not even have
been possible without edits, etc. Notwithstanding GG's avowed ideological
opposition to giving concerts, there is a quality of joy and spontaneity in
the Salzburg perf that rarely comes across in the studio recordings; this
must have had something to do with the "vibe" from the audience.

        Do you find the "live" perfs to be less willfully idiosyncratic than
the studio recordings? Do you think that there are significant differences
between the characteristics of the "live" perfs which GG gave as CBC
broadcasts, and the "live" perfs which he gave before concert audiences?

        These observations/questions are inspired by recent conversations
with Mark Grant, a close friend of mine who is a composer, pianist/organist
and music writer (among his works is "Maestros of the Pen: A History of
Classical Music in America," which won the Deems Taylor award last year; I
recommend it highly). I had played many studio recordings of GG for him in
the past, to varying reactions. But when I played the Salzburg disc for him,
he was completely blown away.



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