RE: [F_minor] Ravel

[Neill Walker <njwalk4300@hotmail.co.uk>]

unsubscribe> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:45:58 -0400> To: christiane.reinhold@bearingpoint.com; boyboy_8@yahoo.com; diftorhehsmusma@gmail.com; f_minor@email.rutgers.edu; fred.houpt@rbc.com> From: pwiener@ms.cc.sunysb.edu> Subject: RE: [F_minor] Ravel> > If you haven't heard Hamelin's performance of the Godowski Etudes of > Chopin you would never know - with all due respect - that there is > life - and genius - beyond Gould's.> > At 11:09 AM 7/1/2008, Reinhold, Christiane wrote:> >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.> >> >> >> >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: 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
ioned 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> > > Sub
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> > > _______________________________________________> > > F_minor mailing list> > > F_minor@email.rutgers.edu> > > https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/f_minor> > >> > >> >************************************************************************> >***************************> > > The information in this email is confidential and may be> > > legally privileged. Access to this email by anyone other> > > than the intended addressee is unauthorized. If you are not> > > the intended recipient of this message, any review,> > > disclosure, copying, distribution, retention, or any action> > > taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited> > > and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient,> > > please reply to or forward a copy of this message to the> > > sender and delete the message, any attachments, and any> > > copies thereof from your system.> > >> >************************************************************************> >***************************> >_______________________________________________> >F_minor mailing list> >F_minor@email.rutgers.edu> >https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/f_minor> >> >***************************************************************************************************> >The information in this email is confidential and may be legally > >privileged. Access to this email by anyone other than the intended > >addressee is unauthorized. If y
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