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Piano magazine article on Gould



Hi list,
 
There's a little information on the cover article to the current edition of "Piano" which is about our man Gould at
www.pianomagazine.com.
 
Actually, there are two articles in it, one that focuses on Gould's early development and another on Gould's attitude towards working in the studio.
 
Not much new in terms of content if you've read the bios.  But perhaps something of interest to collectors.  There's also a Gould discography in the magazine, which could act as a kind of short-hand supplement to the Canning work, but certainly not something to surpass it.
 
I forget if the magazine says this explicitly, but by connecting the dots in magazine I realized for the first time that the Gould CBC recording of the Goldberg Variations *predates* any public performance of the work by him.  He starts giving performances of the work soon after making that recording in 1954.  And from what I can tell, he only gave one performance of the work before he recorded it for CBS.  Interesting.  How did that slip under my radar?
 
Jim