Bits and pieces, Fred (Burleske, some stuff on TV)... I'm not a huge
Strauss fan and can't quite fathom GG's enthusiasm for it.
The Chopin is something to behold - I forgot what point he wanted to
prove (came down to something akin to a wager and he played it on the
radio); there's an anecdote around him picking up the score which he
claimed not to own; he's quoted as saying that he was donning his
darkest sun glasses entering the music store, somewhat feeling akin to
purchasing material that comes in brown paper wrappers...); it's now a
bona fide recording available on CD (part of the complete jacket
collection, but also earlier editions); and, yes, it's "baroquish" which
didn't bode well Chopin. Supposedly, GG in his early youth played quite
a bit of it (curriculum at the conservatory?) and was said to manage
quite beautifully.... a pity.
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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: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 10:00 AM
To: Etha Williams; f_minor@email.rutgers.edu; Houpt, Fred; Reinhold,
Christiane
Subject: RE: [F_minor] Ravel
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
> Manager, Public Services
>
> BearingPoint
> Management & Technology Consultants
>
> 301 Congress Avenue, Suite 1500
> Austin, TX 78701
> USA
>
> T + 1 512 542 5351
> C + 1 512 680 7537
> F + 1 512 382 3386
>
> www.bearingpoint.com
> -----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&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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