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Re: GG Plays Sibelius
They were also released in the "Edition" as SM2K 52654. They are some of
my favorite recordings, mostly because of the different sonorities. I have
not encountered any other GG recordings that sound quite like the
Sonatines.
On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Bradley P Lehman wrote:
> 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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> Bradley Lehman, bpl@umich.edu http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl/
> Submaster of the half-witticism, but only every other once in a while
>
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