RE: italian concerto?

["Junichi Miyazawa" <walkingtune@bigfoot.com>]

Dear K. Berry,

The recording of the Italian Concerto in the GGEdition album
is the one shown in *On the Record*.

As for the other recording of the Italian Concerto, recorded in August 1981:
I hear on the CBS Artist Contract Card, there is a handwritten note that
the release of the recording was rejected by GG himself.
However, when I mentioned it to Bruno Monsaingeon, he told me it was not
the case (i.e. GG did not reject it to be released).  Bruno said the new recording
was a wonderful recording which was totally different (in interpretation) 
from the old one.

Regards,

Junichi, Tokyo


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> 差出人 : K. Berry <kb@cs.umb.edu>
> 宛先 : f_minor@email.rutgers.edu
> 件名 : GG: italian concerto?
> 送信日時 : 1997年5月31日 5:45
> 
> So what's the deal with this Italian Concerto stuff?  The recording on
> the new Italian Bach (and Scarlatti) record seems to be what was shown
> in On the Record, unless my ears are confused (always possible).
> 
> That's fine, it's much superior IMHO to the previously released
> recording (which I have on the Masterworks concertos/organ art of fugue
> double CD).
> 
> But in Canning's list of recording dates in the back of Friedrich,
> there's an entry for the Italian Concerto in August 1981, I guess
> shortly after the time of the Monsaingeon video containing an excerpt
> from it.  And Stegemann's liner notes on the new CD imply on the one
> hand that late recording never happened and on the other that it was a
> failure.
> 
> Does anyone know what the story is?
> 
> Not that it's my favorite Bach piece or anything ...
> 
> kb@cs.umb.edu