Re: Aria and reprise

[Lluís Manent (Teleline) <manent@TELELINE.ES>]

Dear gouldians,

In response to Valeria's e-mail which has been replied by Marcos
(impresionante!) in a very accurate way let me just reccomend you (once
again!) the book  of Michael Schneider (in German, French and Spanish -not
available in english-) "Glenn Gould, piano solo". In the book you will find
a digresion regarding the differences between the Aria and the Reprise: a
very interesting and philosophical view on this subject. In addition to all
what Marcos has written and from my very particular point of view, the
Reprise seems to me "the perfect good bye". It is like a sort of testament,
it is really not only music.Glenn closes in the Reprise the circle opened
with the Aria in a so mystic way (!) Specially in the reprise everything
seems to float, every note is suspended in the air even more (if
possible...) than in the Aria and the variations which "per se" are really a
masterpiece.

Regards,

Lluís Manent Tomas





----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcos Mosquera Castell" <mjmc@ARRAKIS.ES>
To: <F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 7:48 PM
Subject: Aria and reprise


> Hi gouldians! I'm a comelater here. I discovered this list a few days
> ago on searching information about Bach and Zelenka relationship(with no
> succes!?); the first message i've read was one of Valeria(hi Valeria)about
> the diferent nuance of the goldberg-aria in the reprise; i would like to
> coment this question for a while:
> The aria-reprise takes more time; if you hear the first semi-frase (two
> bars) will notice that longs two second more, and this diference takes at
> the end of the aria a total diference of 28 seconds.(an analogue
distention
> happens in the 1955 version). Speaking about sound, the resonance of time,
> not the time itself, the reprise is more vaporous and tenuis, with a plus
> of lonliness. Maybe for not to fall in the abyss of depression or
> desolation, the arpegio in 11 bar is played down to up (for the first time
> in the goulds lecture of goldbergs!). At the end, in the last bar the
> farewell is more conclusive, there is no apoyatura in f#, there is no
> vacilation but a inevitabilis fall in g.  The effect is like a definitive
> farewell, the last time this Aria will sound in the world. At closing the
> circle, these aria always seems to me like a testament,the last word of
> Gould.
> (I sincerely apologize for my very precarius english, and will hope
improve
> it with this conversations)
> Best regards for all to you,
> Marcos Mosquera