RE: [F_minor] Ravel

[f h <boyboy_8@yahoo.com>]

Christiane:

you have heard GG's Richard Strauss album, eh?  I own a copy (a CBS recording I think) and I consider it to be a gem of great worth.  The documentary I mentioned some time back about GG, I guess the most recent of many, has rare clips of GG at home doodling on pieces he would never do publicly like Mendelssohn (just a few bars) and other stuff.  I have yet to hear GG do Chopin although I have read that he played it mercilessly.  

Someone wrote (can't recall where I read this) that GG attacked Mozart's' music contrapuntally in a way to show his displeasure.  Good explanation. 

Regards,

Fred


--- On Tue, 7/1/08, Reinhold, Christiane <christiane.reinhold@bearingpoint.com> wrote:

> From: Reinhold, Christiane <christiane.reinhold@bearingpoint.com>
> Subject: RE: [F_minor] Ravel
> To: boyboy_8@yahoo.com, "Etha Williams" <diftorhehsmusma@gmail.com>, f_minor@email.rutgers.edu, "Houpt, Fred" <fred.houpt@rbc.com>
> Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2008, 11:41 AM
> GG's transcriptions in general are very good (the Ravel
> indeed - compare
> with the original four-handed version on youtube with
> Martha Argerich -
> to me too muddled and furious compared to GG's - for
> all trhe activity
> you can't appreciate the music); also check out
> Wagner's Meistersinger
> piece he did, the two Beethoven Symphonies, 5 and 6 (the
> Pastoral is
> incomplete) and others.... some he never recorded but only
> played for
> his own enjoyment at home (R. Strauss, etc.). Would there
> be private
> recordings languishing in the Gould collection in Ottawa?
> 
> Christiane Reinhold, Ph.D., PMP
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: f_minor-bounces@email.rutgers.edu
> [mailto:f_minor-bounces@email.rutgers.edu] On Behalf Of f h
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 9:23 PM
> To: Etha Williams; f_minor@email.rutgers.edu; Houpt, Fred
> Subject: [F_minor] Ravel
> 
> Hi all. I have just stumbled upon a GG recording/movie that
> is entirely
> new to me. I am totally dumbfounded and knocked senseless.
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk-7fbHBvOY&amp;feature=related
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTgus9CfwKc&feature=related
> 
> I hope that the links will play for you. This is GG's
> entirely new
> rendition of Ravel's "La Valse".  I am blown
> away.  GG has captured the
> inner essence of this music much more ably than most
> orchestral
> versions.
> 
> Now, this is what I call good "shock and awe".
> 
> What do you all feel?
> 
> Wow.....
> 
> Fred Houpt
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