Re: New York Times article on Goldberg reissues / Tim Page+GG TV interview

[Lluís Manent (Teleline) <manent@TELELINE.ES>]

Hope this new three-disc release will be soon also available in Europe...

Thanks for the information, ajh! A very interesting article.

I watched once a B&W interview on a German channel between Tim Page and
Glenn Gould about Mozart and Beethoven among other subjects. Gould was
siting close to the piano answering the questions of Tim Page an playing
some examples to ilustrate the discussion. But I think this interview has
been never issued on a Sony collection (like in the XII-videos and laserdics
"Glenn Gould Edition") or on a similar edition. I have seen and recorded
some excerpts of this very interesting interview in a German channel (ARD,
Eins or Arte, I am not sure...)

Perhaps some of you has more information about this...

Lluís
----- Original Message -----
From: "ajh" <ajh@WORLD.STD.COM>
To: <F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 4:43 AM
Subject: New York Times article on Goldberg reissues


> From an article in Sunday's New York Times:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/01/arts/music/01TOMM.html
>
> Includes the following:
>
> On Tuesday, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Gould's birth (Sept.
25)
> and the 20th anniversary of his death (Oct. 4), Sony Classical, in
> partnership with Legacy Recordings, will release a three-disc set, "Glenn
> Gould: A State of Wonder" (S3K 87703). It contains expertly remastered
> recordings of both the 1955 and the 1981 "Goldbergs" and a bonus disc with
> a 51-minute interview of Gould from 1981, conducted by Tim Page, the chief
> classical music critic of The Washington Post, who served as a creative
> consultant to this project and contributed two essays to the lavish notes.
> There is also an audio documentary of the 1955 sessions, which captures
wry
> banter between Gould and the engineers, and a few fascinating outtakes. To
> make the set even more enticing, the list price is just $20.
>         As a feat of engineering alone, the release is sure to excite
audiophiles.
> It turns out that the engineers in 1981, wary of the new digital
> technology, also taped the complete sessions in the existing analog format
> as a precaution. For the new release, Sony engineers went back to those
> analog tapes and respliced the entire performance, hewing exactly to the
> editing choices agreed on by Gould and his co-producer, Samuel H. Carter.
> (Their marked-up score still exists.)
>         The results are amazing. ...