Re: GLENN GOULD BASHING!! (fwd)

[frank@clark.net]

ALERT! I've never heard this. If anyone knows, please post to
rec.music.classical and to rec.music.classical.recordings.


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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 13:48:40 -0600
From: Dean Lampe <dlampe@tic.bisman.com>
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
Subject: Re: GLENN GOULD BASHING!!

Eric Barnhill wrote:

> Do you know the details of the recording? It's not an authentic live
> session. It combines two different concerts that Gould and Bernstein did
> of this concerto. My teacher saw both of them and knew Bernstein somewhat
> well and has attested to this in the past.
> 
> You see, the first night Bernstein took a substantially faster tempo than
> Gould wanted (believe it or not). He was only willing to do Gould's tempo
> if he could make a little speech before, as a disclaimer, and this he did
> at the second concert. However, he was so horrified by the final results
> that when he put the recording together he grafted his speech onto the
> earlier, more tolerable version of the piece.
> 
> By more than one live account of both concerts, they were just awful.
> 
> I'm not going to get ensconced in the Gould debate (maybe my stance is
> somewhat clear from just this) but this recording is not the real thing.
> And Bernstein was not happy with Gould or with what happened.
> 
> Eric

Please cite the recording that you are making reference to.  Label, number 
and date would be sufficient.  Thanks.
-- 
Best regards,
Dean



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