Re: GG: Gould's francophonie...

[pzumst <pzumst@BLUEWIN.CH>]

> Hey, that's some useful information. I've often wondered what was one that
> disc.
> Thanks for writing in.
>
> So which essay is it?  Who is it on? Bach?

this is only  a small footnote in the gould catalogue, and much to my irritation
I found out that only little info on this german feature is out there...........

in the early 70s gg was contacted by the now defunct european broadcasting union
ebu and recorded some material
in collaboration with the cbc for them.
it seems that among these recordings was a german feature with comments by gould
on bach, the art of the fugue (the printed version can be foudn in the gg
reader, don't have mine at hand to tell you the title)and musical examples
clocking in at 17:40.
It was later released as a supplementeray disk for the german wtc and
re-released for the german version of the 32 sf soundtrack. at present the cd is
not available (and I don't have any intention to sell my copy) so all ya
need-to-have-everything collectors should check the german ebay site.

if you have any additonal info, corrections, complaints etc let me know
rgds
pat

>
>
> Jim (who's been listening to the Gould Beethoven Concerti today.  Fine work
> by our man.)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "pzumst" <pzumst@BLUEWIN.CH>
> To: <F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 2:22 PM
> Subject: Re: GG: Gould's francophonie...
>
> >
> > However, are you aware that Glenn did do a native German language spoken
> promo for a German release of his record? Here is the info from the NLC:
> >
> >     File no. / No du dossier: 34 32 10
> >     Series / Séries: Correspondence, incoming
> >     Author/composer / Auteur/compositeur: Stracke, Hans Richard CBS
> Schallplatten,
> >     Frankfurt, Germany
> >     Title / Titre: Gould, Glenn
> >     Contents / Contenu: will send six more sets, suggests Gould record
> 8-12 minute talk in
> >     German about Bach in connection with release of CBS Schallplatten
> S77337
> >     Date: 1970 Dec 16
> >     Medium / Média: typescript
> >     Pages: 1 leaf
> >
> > Can any of our German friends give further analysis of this piece???
> Danke!!
> >
>
> well I'm not a german but swiss (language problem ? tell me about it).
> german is my native language and so I know more about this piece.
>
> A 17-minute audio essay by gg in german on bach can be heard on the german
> version of the 32 film soundtrack s2k 64315 , probably recorded in 1972 for
> german radio. this is no original piece, just a translation of one of his
> essays.
> unfortunetly there is not that much info in the liner notes but I know where
> to look that up if anyone wants to know more his german doesn't sound that
> bad for someone who needed a trainer and who at least to my knowledge never
> had any german lessons.....
> rgds
> pat