I first got turned on to Keith's music when I was working with a guy named Mel in 1976. I bought a couple of lp's: The Koln Concerts" and "Arbor Zena". These made me an instant fan and since then I've bought several others. Here is one of his videos and he's playing "My Funny Valentine".
Friday, January 18, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Glen Gould - Goldberg Variations 1 - 7
I've never heard anyone play Bach with more feeling than Glen Gould.
[the following is a quotation from his biography at www.sonyclassical.com:]
In 1981 Gould departed from his custom of not rerecording a work and, twenty-six years after his first recording of the Goldberg Variations, went into the same New York studio for his second recording of the work with which he had become so closely identified. Gould viewed the two interpretations as substantially different because he came to see the variations not as separate and distinct exercises but as belonging to a larger whole, with one rhythmic pulse, harmony and ideology underlying the entire work and forming a definite unity of composition. Always acutely aware of the possibilities technology offers, Gould was also motivated in his decision to rerecord the Goldberg Variations by the vast changes in recording technology during the previous twenty-five years.
Click here to see his full biography
[the following is a quotation from his biography at www.sonyclassical.com:]
In 1981 Gould departed from his custom of not rerecording a work and, twenty-six years after his first recording of the Goldberg Variations, went into the same New York studio for his second recording of the work with which he had become so closely identified. Gould viewed the two interpretations as substantially different because he came to see the variations not as separate and distinct exercises but as belonging to a larger whole, with one rhythmic pulse, harmony and ideology underlying the entire work and forming a definite unity of composition. Always acutely aware of the possibilities technology offers, Gould was also motivated in his decision to rerecord the Goldberg Variations by the vast changes in recording technology during the previous twenty-five years.
Click here to see his full biography
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