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Re: GG Plays Sibelius
On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, PHILIP.GARON wrote:
> "And Glenn Gould's album of the otherwise unremarkable
> Sonatinas for piano has a fascinayting quirk that should
> make it irrestible to anybody interested in Gould and his
> philosophy. He recorded the music with severeal microphones
> to capture the same performance from different vantage
> points and then used the tapes in the same way a movie
> director might coordinate a roomful of cameras. And so one
> phrase might be in 'close-up' -- recorded only a few inches
> from the sounding-board of the piano -- and the next phrase
> might be far away, a 'long shot,' with the piano in the
> sonorous distance. Whatever else this recording may be,
> it's unique; Gould never tried this experiment again."
>
> I had never heard about this recording being done by GG in
> this manner, and was wondering if any of the list-members
> who are familiar with it might comment. Also, is it
> available on CD?
Yes, the Sibelius recordings are in one of the Glenn Gould Legacy boxes of
a few years ago. Gould used this technique with one of the Scriabin
sonatas, also (similarly available in a Legacy box).
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