New York Times article on Goldberg reissues

[ajh <ajh@world.std.com>]

From an article in Sunday's New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/01/arts/music/01TOMM.html

Includes the following:

On Tuesday, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Gould's birth (Sept. 25)
and the 20th anniversary of his death (Oct. 4), Sony Classical, in
partnership with Legacy Recordings, will release a three-disc set, "Glenn
Gould: A State of Wonder" (S3K 87703). It contains expertly remastered
recordings of both the 1955 and the 1981 "Goldbergs" and a bonus disc with
a 51-minute interview of Gould from 1981, conducted by Tim Page, the chief
classical music critic of The Washington Post, who served as a creative
consultant to this project and contributed two essays to the lavish notes.
There is also an audio documentary of the 1955 sessions, which captures wry
banter between Gould and the engineers, and a few fascinating outtakes. To
make the set even more enticing, the list price is just $20.
       As a feat of engineering alone, the release is sure to excite audiophiles.
It turns out that the engineers in 1981, wary of the new digital
technology, also taped the complete sessions in the existing analog format
as a precaution. For the new release, Sony engineers went back to those
analog tapes and respliced the entire performance, hewing exactly to the
editing choices agreed on by Gould and his co-producer, Samuel H. Carter.
(Their marked-up score still exists.)
       The results are amazing. ...