R: Aria and reprise

[madiva@working.it]

Marcos,
welcome in  the Fminor list!
Thanks for your beautiful and competent comment.
 The phrase about The Gould's farewell move me.
Best  regards

Valeria

----- Original Message -----
From: Marcos Mosquera Castell <mjmc@ARRAKIS.ES>
To: <F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 7:48 PM
Subject: Aria and reprise


> 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.
> Best regards for all to you,
> Marcos Mosquera
>