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GG hit list
Danielle asked:
>What wld listpersons select as Gould's top 10 best recordings of choice
>for sheer musicality, interpretational excellence, or whatever other
>eclectic reasons?
- Salzburg recital 1959: Sweelinck fantasy, Schoenberg suite, Mozart 330,
Goldberg Var
- Brahms intermezzi
- Schoenberg solo piano works
- Berg sonata
- Beethoven "Moonlight" (sonata 14) and sonatas 30-32, and bagatelles
- Scriabin sonatas and miniatures
- The Byrd/Gibbons album (eccentric but spirited and convincing)
- Haydn sonatas, especially his 1958 recording of #49
- Beethoven/Liszt symphonies 5 & 6
- Gould's own solo piano transcriptions of Wagner
And yes, I left out all his Bach (except the amazing Goldbergs from
Salzburg) deliberately, because I think all the above are better. High
points of his Bach are the partitas, 1955 Goldberg Var, and some of the
WTC.
The Beethoven concertos 1, 2, and 4 almost made my top ten; so did the
Prokofiev sonata 7 and some of the Hindemith...
Bradley Lehman, Dayton VA
home: http://i.am/bpl or http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl
CD's: http://listen.to/bpl or http://www.mp3.com/bpl
"Music must cause fire to flare up from the spirit - and not only sparks
from the clavier...." - Alfred Cortot