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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2List Price:
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| CBC Records' illuminating series devoted to pre-1955 Glenn Gould concert and broadcast material adds valuable perspective to the Canadian pianist's better-known studio recordings. Gould was not yet 20 when these live Beethoven performances were aired and, thankfully, preserved. Beyond question, the kid sounds like an old master. All of Gould's best qualities are firmly in place: his focused sonority, his atomic sense of rhythm, poise, assurance, and a wide arsenal of articulations. Moreover, the performances are similar in style and intent to Gould's subsequent commercial renditions, but less calculated and machine-like. Oddly, Gould takes the C Major Concerto's Rondo at a gingerly clip that markedly contrasts with the unusually fleet first movement. The latter preserves Gould tearing through Beethoven's unbuttoned cadenza, soon to be abandoned in favor of a contrapuntal concoction of his own (the one he recorded). Although the sonics are constricted and unpredictably balanced, you get more than an inkling of the Toronto Symphony's sterling, expressive string section. The perceptive annotations put these valuable performances in context, and the transfers are effected with care. --Jed Distler Cached date: AWS Called=true |
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