Aria and reprise

[Marcos Mosquera Castell <mjmc@arrakis.es>]

Hi gouldians! I'm a comelater here. I discovered this list a few days
ago on searching information about Bach and Zelenka relationship(with no
succes!?); the first message i've read was one of Valeria(hi Valeria)about
the diferent nuance of the goldberg-aria in the reprise; i would like to
coment this question for a while:
The aria-reprise takes more time; if you hear the first semi-frase (two
bars) will notice that longs two second more, and this diference takes at
the end of the aria a total diference of 28 seconds.(an analogue distention
happens in the 1955 version). Speaking about sound, the resonance of time,
not the time itself, the reprise is more vaporous and tenuis, with a plus
of lonliness. Maybe for not to fall in the abyss of depression or
desolation, the arpegio in 11 bar is played down to up (for the first time
in the goulds lecture of goldbergs!). At the end, in the last bar the
farewell is more conclusive, there is no apoyatura in f#, there is no
vacilation but a inevitabilis fall in g.  The effect is like a definitive
farewell, the last time this Aria will sound in the world. At closing the
circle, these aria always seems to me like a testament,the last word of
Gould.
(I sincerely apologize for my very precarius english, and will hope improve
it with this conversations)
Best regards for all to you,
Marcos Mosquera