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Re: New Glenn Gould Release
Oh Daniel, just spend the 18 bucks.
This week I have a great deal of evidence to believe we're all going to perish
from global warming, so we might as well go out with lovely background music.
(Non-USA'ers: I apologize for Bush's universal rejection of the Kyoto Protocol.
Also Bush's reneging on Clinton's promise to sign the International Land Mine
Ban. Also Bush's unilateral rejection of ... )
I think I've mentioned this before.
Sometime in the '80s I was at the Harvard Coop and they had a huge bin of cheap
cassette tapes. One of them said "Very Earliest Recordings of Glenn
Gould!" The label wasn't Columbia, nor was it any label I'd ever heard of.
For that price I didn't have much to lose, so I bought it.
They weren't lying. These were the Very
Earliest Recordings of Glenn Gould. Some aunt had turned on a primitive
reel-to-reel tape-recorder while the tot was tortuously and laboriously banging
out scales, Chopsticks, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (his very first Mozart,
too!) ... the aunt had captured him during his first three months on the piano
stool (assisted by the Toronto phone book). I've never had any reason to
question its authenticity. Or listen to it again.
Bob
>I've been eyeing it at Tower for the last week
or so, but can't quite get
>myself to spend the $18. The CD contains
recordings made betw 1948-53, and
>includes a 1948 recording of the
Italian Concerto!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Anne M.
Marble [mailto:amarble@SFF.NET]
>Sent: Tuesday,
August 07, 2001 8:26 AM
>To: F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU
>Subject:
New Glenn Gould Release
>
>I saw this listed on
Amazon.com:
>
>"His First Recordings"
>Vai Audio -
#1198
>Audio CD (July 31, 2001)
>
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005NKJO/ref%3Ds%5Fe9/104-0330762-
>0322308
>
>Does
anyone know more about this? Which first recordings are they?
CBC
>recordings? Or even earlier recordings, perhaps even restored copies
of the
>recordings he made in his teens?
>
>------
>Anne
M. Marble
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