Re: GG Recordings (published by CBC)

[Pablo Fagoaga <faguss@HOTPOP.COM>]

Yeah, they usually re-release recordings of the companies they merge, but
with renewed covers.
I remember having big trouble to locate Jean-Claude Malgoire's rendition of
Mozart's Requiem (to my taste, exquisite), just because I browsed shop
shelves having in mind the cover of the older CBC release!!!.
If you observe closely not just Gould Cds but *many* other Sony releases,
they expresely declare in the back of the boxes, in small but bold letters,
that "Consists of previously released material"

Anyway, about this "CBC and Sony releases" topic, I have a doubt.
Years ago I got Gould's WTC on it's CBC release. The entire set (both books)
takes 3 CDs.
But I've seen that Sony's release consists of 2 boxes of 2 CDs, that makes a
total 4.
¿¿Is this a different recording, or just some "trick" from Sony to get a few
more bucks out of the same old thing??
Regards,
Pablo
----- Mensaje original -----
De: Bradley P Lehman <bpl@UMICH.EDU>
Para: <F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU>
Enviado: Martes 7 de Enero de 2003 00:43
Asunto: Re: GG Recordings (published by CBC)


> Lain wrote:
> >Over all, I like listening to the CBC recordings because some of them
> >contain live performances that Sony did not record.  However, sound
> >quality for some of them are questionable.  Even so, the collection is a
> >must for any GG buff.
>
> I agree that they're a must; young Gould was "loosened up" and musically
> direct in ways that he wasn't always later.
>
> I have to make a nit-picking comment about that phrase "that Sony did not
> record."  Sony (as such) did not record a single note played by Glenn
> Gould.  They simply bought up the rights to his work after he was gone.
> Most of Gould's recordings were done by Columbia Masterworks or CBS and
> published by them:  first on records and tapes, and then (after Gould's
> death) some on CD.  [There were no Gould CDs during Gould's lifetime.]
> Other recordings from concerts or television programmes were issued by
> various labels: some legitimate, some pirate.  All kinds of great stuff
> showed up in this free enterprise milieu.
>
> Then Sony acquired the rights to everything (except the early CBC stuff),
> and used its monopoly to put all other Gould issues out of business.
> They've done a pretty respectable job with most of the material, yes, but
> they've done so at premium prices, cashing in on their Goulden Goose.
> And they put together things that weren't originally together, repackaging
> everything (sound recordings and video footage) in strange ways.  To some
> of us who had most of Gould's recordings before $ony got hold of things,
> it's always seemed like a sellout....
>
> And some of us out here just don't like hegemony in general.  Sometimes
> competition is healthy.  :)
>
>
> Bradley Lehman, Dayton VA
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