Re: GG Edition, vol. 8

[Tim Conway <tpconway@ozemail.com.au>]

Tony,

>I seem to remember  a Masterworks portrait alblum from a while back
>featuring the Gould/Susskind/CBC SO in #24 and, I believe,
>Gould/Lhevinne/Members of the Juilliard School in #22.   If someone knows
>of or owns this alblum please confirm this.

I have a Masterworks Portrait cassette tape of this 1960-62 production. 
Your description of #24 is correct, but #22 is given on the sparse cover 
notes as Lhevinne/Juilliard Orchestra/Jean Morel; no mention of GG. The 
cassette number, if that's what it is, is 40-60276. The cover says that 
liner notes are included but I must have lost them.

>Gould did make some recordings with his piano teacher, Alberto Guerrero, of
>some 4-handed Mozart.  These recordings should still be available on an
>alblum called "The Young Glenn Gould."

I have two 'The Young Glenn Gould' tapes by VOX-TURNABOUT (Moss Music 
Group, Inc., NY) of very early recordings made of GG and Alberto 
Guerrero. They were a serendipitous find in a Kowloon record shop that 
specialised in dross but occasionally lapsed into culture.

The first, KC 334 792, dates from 1951-53 and has Berg (Sonata #1), 
Shostakovich (3 Fantastic Dances), Taneyev (Birth of the Harp) and 
Prokofiev (Winter Fairy from 'Cinderella'). All feature GG, and the last 
also has Albert Pratz on violin. Total tape playing time is about 23 
minutes

The second, KC 334 793, has the Mozart 4-hand stuff you mention (Allegro 
from K521, Andante + 5 Vars K501, Allegro di molto from K497) on side 
one; on side two is another 4-hander (Fantasy No. 1, K594) played by the 
two of them, and JSB's Italian Concerto but played by Guerrero, not 
Gould. To my mind, that's a bit of a con, especially as the total playing 
time for the tape is only about 33 minutes and the recordings date from 
the 1940s and are excruciating as to quality. Still, I seem to remember 
picking both tapes up for a song because the shop owner recognised the 
fact that 99.9% of his customers wouldn't even know who the old Glenn 
Gould was, let alone the young one, so I'm not complaining. But if what's 
on the tapes is transferred to CD, caveat emptor.

Tim




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