Re: GG: [Bach-List]

[Richard Vallis <rvpiano@spec.net>]

GG doesn't just add a continuo part in this concerto.  He actually adds thematic
material in the left hand while the right hand is playing scalar patterns.  Listen
particularly near the end of the movement, before the cadenza.  If  I'm not mistaken,
by the way, I believe the cadenza in the Columbia recording is by Beethoven.

Bradley P Lehman wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Richard Vallis wrote:
>
> > vis a vis Gould's Mozart.  I haven't heard any comments in this torrent of
> > (torrid?) discussion concerning his playing of  the K.491 Concerto.  I can't
> > imagine anyone (even in this group) trashing this performance which (IMHO) is a
> > truly great, inspired, interpretation, even with the "improved" added
> > counterpoint.
>
> Weird cadenza he does in the first movement, though.  And GG isn't the
> only modern pianist to add continuo and other things to a Mozart
> concerto's texture.  Among others who do so with gusto, there are
> Friedrich Gulda with Harnoncourt and Chick Corea with McFerrin, and Robert
> Levin (#17 on modern piano with New York Philomusica, in addition to his
> fortepiano work).  Actually, with fortepianists, adding continuo to the
> concertos is more the rule than the exception...I've also heard continuo
> and lead-ins added to the Beethoven concertos.
>
> There's a live GG recording of that Mozart c minor concerto, too, a
> similar performance.
>
> Bradley Lehman ~ Harrisonburg VA, USA ~ 38.45716N+78.94565W
> bpl@umich.edu ~ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl/