GG:Final Sony GG edition

[Mary Jo Watts <mwatts@rci.rutgers.edu>]

>- The Art of Fugue, which I'm afraid, having read so much criticising >GG's organ playing, I gave a miss;

>- and the String Quartet; "So You Want to Write a Fugue" and a couple >of bits and pieces -- Shostakovitch etc.

> Does anyone have any recommendations about these other two? *Should* I >be getting them? Are they indispensable? Can I sleep without them?
> Very best,  Alun
>

<Emphatically> I think that _The Art of the Fugue_ CD is worth the cash.
7 of the 16 tracks are played by GG on the piano-- culled from the
videos and unreleased recordings.  

As far as "GG and Chamber Music"-- UGG!  My local Borders (a book/music
megastore) has it in stock but can't find it.  It's not filed under GG,
Shostakovitch-- any of the composers, soloists...they don't have a list
of items they stocked the 25th of Feb (the release date)...they can't
search their database by the catalog number.  After one of the most
frustrating hours in recent memory, I had to special order the CD-- one
they undoubtedly have in the store.

-MJ