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Glenn Gould in slightly pedagogical mode, but inspired nonetheless, speaking on Arnold Schoenberg and his Suite for Piano op 25.

Linking to this piece as a tribute to Belmont Music Publishers who lost their Schoenberg archive in the fires at Pacific Palisades.

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This piece keeps me thinking. I got Arved Ashby's book from the library. A real find.

Ashby on Gould: "An imaginative mind taking an example of common-practice music and teasing out its textual possibilities to extremes, risking incursions into the bizarre and the arbitrary, and testing the various prospects for coherent musical wholes that may or may not have anything to do with the composer’s thinking."

« The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. »

― Glenn Gould

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TumblrPoligraf · The Artistic ImpulseThe justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary...

J.S. Bach type of morning. I decided for Gould's recordings of The Well-Tempered Clavier. The vibe and style of his playing is lively, happy and funny. Barenboim's recordings for me are the exact opposite in interpretation and transport an almost sacral deep meditation. I really love both versions. I have once heard Gulda's strange harpsichord version and I didn't like it. I can hardly bear those loads of vibrato.
Have a great day, y'all.
#Piano #JSBach #GlennGould #DanielBarenboim

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The Cathryn Aison work reminded me of one of the “32 Short Films about Glenn Gould”, a part of “Spheres”, the animated short by Norman McLaren and René Jodoin, with Bach piano music played by Gould. McLaren’s animations at the Canadian GPO (often with longtime collaborator Evelyn Lambart) are justly well-known. Spheres is from 1969, but some remarks on the internet suggest it was unfinished until much later. I don’t know.

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