Gould, Sentiment and Chopin

[Allan MacLeod <armacleod@SK.SYMPATICO.CA>]

If Gould did usually play with feeling or sentiment rather than just
occasionally, why did he abhor Chopin?  When you think about it, Gould's
failure to record Chopin is a great loss for us.  He did seem to claim
that he just didn't find Chopin musically/structurally challenging
enough and sometimes he rejected Chopin as being too emotional, in which
case I think he confused the composer with some of his contemporary
piansists.  How he could be so fond of Richard Strauss and not like
Chopin is also something of a mystery.
        Allan