I now find youtube has this documentary of Gould at the studio re-doing the Goldbergs…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGPJDgp2-9A&feature=fvwrel
On 29/09/2012, at 10:10 PM, chris Jones wrote:
> On 29/09/12 20:29, Max Richards wrote:
>> my wife and I listen to some of his Bach in the car
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyjqVWo-1pU&feature=related
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> Listening to the Goldberg variations on mp3. A new Bach.
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> Why have I not heard these played like this before?
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> My guess, given the recording dates, is we would have considered this cheap and commercial, in my art school youth. This youth was the era of conceptual art, and how much were we elitist artistic snobs.
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