回複：To Passerby: Glenn Gould on Beethoven

What you are saying is that he was a nutty genius. It’s not surprising to put nutty & genius in one breath. The argument on his interpretation will probably last longer than the length of his life. Did you read the commends off that clip? Some of them are only weeks old and still so heated. It’s been almost 20 years from his death. (Many of them were deleted due to the improper using of language. Talking about “gloves off.)

I wonder if you can find the GG/Bernstein’s Brahms Piano Concerto No.1. Both Bernstein's speech in the beginning and a part of an interview at the end with Glenn Gould are very interesting. I found it in our local library. I will see if I can them on line.

To me, though GG’s dates were well into the 20th century. His approach belongs to the Romantic Era. Often people put his side by side with Horowitz, who is often called “The Last Romanticist”. The Mozart clip is one of the examples, which demonstrates to what extent he ignores the composer’s intention and superimposes his own will into the pieces. He changes the tempi just because of the original “takes the juice out it”. This is completely 19th Century. This does not only appear in the music composers he disliked, it shows in his Bach as well. It is not surprising that pianists like Tureck and Schiff disagree with GG on many fronts. BTW, both of them recorded the Goldberg Variations.

It gets too long. Cutting off here. Thanks for reading.

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