Re: GG: Wagner/Mitch/F & T

[Richard Vallis <rvpiano@spec.net>]

Considering the type of music  Ferrante and Teicher played and the
"romantic" ( Aunt Tillie?) way they played it, I believe Gould was being
sarcastic, perhaps saying he was not congenitally equipped to play that
way.

Junichi Miyazawa wrote:

> >>>GG: That, sir, is not for me to say.  But given the
> >>>nightmare of endeavoring to sync to my own rubato,
> >>>it proved conclusively that Ferrante and Teicher, I'm not.
>
> My paraphrase (with some modification):
>
> >>The dubbing session of Meistersinger was
> >>a very unpleasant experience.
> >>It was very difficult to
> >>synchronize the secondo piano to the primo
> >>on the rubato parts.
> >>So, in conclusion, I found I could not be
> >>a splendid piano duo like Ferrante & Teicher,
> >>even with the help of recording technology.
>
> Is this paraphrase correct?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Junichi