Re: GG: RE: A Glenn Gould Supplement

[frank@clark.net]

On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Junichi Miyazawa wrote:

> Hi Frank - 
> 
> Great!  Have you found any mistakes on the book?
> If you have, please post an errata too.
> (Actually I have some, so I will post them later on.)
> 
> Junichi Miyazawa
> 
I made some notes some time ago.

p.4. Failed to include a piano version of Art of the Fugue No. 4 on "At
Home with Glenn Gould," noted by me.

p. 7. Failed to include the Melodiya original of the Leningrad perf.
of Bach Con. 1. Melodiya doesn't give catalog disc numbers, but rather
catalog *side* numbers. The disc as a whole is M10 42831-2. The Bach is on
side 1. The disc was issued in 1980. By 1984, however, Melodiya had
stopped the practice of putting the side numbers on the jacket. See the
Moscow talk record of my earlier posting. On the label on the discs, the
side numbers are retained below the disc no. Thus side 1 has

GOST 5289-80 [I don't know what it means.]
      1      [side 1 of the disc]
M10 45963 009 [I don't understand the suffix]
  45963      [the side no.]

Side 2 is
same
2
same
45964

GOST is the English translitteration of "gamma-looking-character O C T"
The same GOST 5289-80 is on the Moscow talk record.

Going through my Melodiya recording of the great conductor Yevgeni
Mravinski, I have a 

early stereo rec., 33SM 02863-4, issued 1971, with TU Ph-16 [looks like  
TY(space)Greek phi(dash)16
early stereo rec., 33SM 02857-8, issued 1971, with TU Ph-16

BUT early stereo SM 02861-2, iss. 1971, with TU-43.10.1.74

stereo rec., C10 18171 004, released 1983, with the same GOST
stereo rec., S10 22371 007, released 1985, with the same GOST

an monaural rec. D-09999-10000 with GOST 5289-68 (instead of 80)

Three of my ten-inchers have GOST 5289 with 56, 61, and 68 suffixes.
A fourth has a TU 35, with ChP 558-63 on the line below.


p. 35. Failed to include the Melodiya original of the Leningrad
performance. The *side* no. is M10 42832

p. 42. Omitted also the excerpts on the "Concert Dropout" disc, Col. BS 15

p. 46. Failed to say "acquired from Melodiya USSR" for the Berg sonata
recorded at the Moscow Conservatory. Gave the attribution to the other
items on the disc. Failed to give Melodiya catalog no. for all items.

p. 58

p. 90. The Winter Fairy was arranged for violin and piano by M.
Fichtengoltz. I have one of the few copies of Hallmark RS 3!

p. 99. Three piano pieces, Op. 11. ML 5336 was in mono. MS 6817 in M2S
736 and MS 7098 were in phony stereo. M3 42150 used recently discovered
stereo master tapes.

p. 107. Three Fantastic Dances arr. by Harry Glickman

p. 114. Serge Taneieff (as spelled on RS 3) arr. by Arthur Hartmann

p. 180. ML 6216/MS 6816 was never as a single disc. It was the first disc
in M2L 336/M2S 736, "Music of Arnold Schoenberg, Vol. 4." The disc label
has M2S 736 on one line and MS 6816 onn the line below.
This disc was issued separately as MS 7098 and
is listed on p. 182. Don't know if there was a monaural ML issue. It was
reissued again on a single disc, M 31311, "Complete Songs for Voice and
Piano," at the same time M 31312, "Complete Songs for Voice and Piano,
Vol. 2" was issued on LP for the one and only time.

p. 181. ML 6217/MS 6817 was the second disc of M2L 336/MS 736. But it
was issued saparately as MS 7098 and is listed on p. 182.

p. 181-2. M2L 367/M2S 767 was another two record set, never singles.
But their numbers were ML 6436/MS 7036 and ML 6437/MS 7037. I never owned
these discs, but rather a Japanese reissue. Canning perhaps just imported
these numbers from the discography in the back of Geoffrey Payzant's
_Glenn Gould: Music and Mind_. It takes a while for things like this to
fall into place. Then they are perfectly obvious! Payzant and Canning both
say the Phantasy was on the first disc and the Ode on the second. This may
be in error. Would someone please check?

p. 183. MS 7325 was part of a three-disc budget set D3S 806 and was also
not issued separately. The other side of the disc contained the Piano
Quintet, Leonard Berstein, piano. The other two discs comprised the string
quartets, and *their* numbers were MS 7296 and MS 7297, also not issued
separately. This set *might* have been a repackaging of a two-disc M2S
full price set with the third disc, but I find no trace of it. The
Bernstein side *was* previously issued on ML 6329/MS 6929, coupled with
him
playing Mozart: PQ 1 in g, K. 478. Apparently all the other five sides
were issued for the first time in D3S 806. All are with three or four
members of the Julliard Quartet.

Now go correct all the relevant entries in the main catalog.

p. 185. Y 30491 does not have Sonata 10.
  
pp. 206-7. I don't think the last M&A CD-694 ever made it to the stores.
At least that is what I read, but I have a vague recollectio of seeing it
and deciding not to buy it at that time. The Beethoven Variations in F,
Op. 34, and the Weber Konzertstu"ck have not yet resurfaced, but the
other three have been issued by CBC.

It would be great to have all the foreign issues! 

There's much more work to be done. For example, Canning reported a 1957
Moscow recording of Bach's Three-Part Inventions: Nos. 2-15 and says
"Sony" acquired the rights from Melodiya in 1983 but had not released it.
It was issued on a 10" Melodiya disc D 7133/4, prob. in 1960. Ars Antiqua
got some a few years ago and started selling thefor $44. I waited for the
Sony CD SMK 52685. I think the price for the LP dropped to $15. I may have
bought a copy, but it's not on my shelves, or at least I can't find it.

Frank