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Thanks as always Brad for sharing yr enormous knowledge....am
working my way through yr reply with glee.
You wrote
> I'm not sure where you have got the idea
that Gould was
> unenthusiastic about the WTC. Please explain.... > I'm going by the article used in the booklet accompanying the ggedition double CD I have: On the "muzak" character of the Fugue or Instructions for "well tempered Listeners" by Michael Stegemann. It bristles with statements such as "sounds anything but euphoric", "Gould regarded many of the preludes as simply 'prosaically prefatory' ", "undisguised lack of enthusiasm with which he contemplated the continuation of the recording project" . Perhaps I - or M Stegemann - have been mislead? Cordialement
Danielle Danielle Law-Jackson
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