Re: GG: Charles Rosen's Goldbergs

[Alun Severn <alun@ukiah.demon.co.uk>]

Robert Clements said:

>I'm not sure that the similarity with GG holds _that_ well though (apart
>from the straight & _clavier_ clean piano sound, which both pianists were
>searching for): Rosen was basically using a classicist's aesthetic to
>_realise_ the score; whereas - as always - GG's performance is a
>romanticist's reconsideration bordering on (figurative) transcription of the
>work. But for my money, at least, Rosen really _is_ an essential classic....

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This makes me think -- for the first time -- that GG was actually a
romantic searching for an unromantic 'sound' within a romantic
interpretation?

Thanks, Alun Severn

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