<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>egads ! does that include the a flat, op 53, polonaise ?</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "Houpt, Fred" <fred.houpt@rbc.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Brad Lehman <bpl@umich.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. <f_minor@glenngould.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, July 15, 2010 4:00:13 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [f_minor] Gould and Rachmaninoff<br></font><br>
Yeah, I have heard the Chopin, which is uploaded to You Tube and it is<br>freakish. When GG was out to disassemble the architecture of music he<br>thought over-rated, he did a Chopin and the rest is history. He could<br>have just left well enough alone and said, no, I have not changed my<br>mind. Chopin was a minor composer of miniatures, not worthy of the<br>praise. But no, that would not hold. He had to embarrass himself and<br>put the music on acid. <br><br>Fred (no, I never did drop acid, but I can imagine....) <br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Brad Lehman [mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:bpl@umich.edu" href="mailto:bpl@umich.edu">bpl@umich.edu</a>] <br>Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 3:50 PM<br>To: Houpt, Fred<br>Cc: Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.<br>Subject: Re: [f_minor] Gould and Rachmaninoff<br><br>On 7/15/2010 1:13 PM, Houpt, Fred wrote:<br>> Has anyone listened to this
one?<br>><br><span>> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Glenn-Gould-Mendelssohn-Scriabin-Prokofiev/dp/B0">http://www.amazon.com/Glenn-Gould-Mendelssohn-Scriabin-Prokofiev/dp/B0</a></span><br>> 00<br>> 0028NQ/ref=pd_sim_m_2<br>><br>> He recorded Mendelssohn? Wha???? News to me<br><br>I have the earlier releases of that Mendelssohn and Chopin, when they<br>were Music & Arts CDs (that had to get withdrawn when the estate and<br>Sony got uppity). The Mendelssohn struck me as OK but not really<br>special or memorable.<br><br>The Chopin, on the other hand, was more bizarre than anyone could<br>rightly expect, even for Gould. Tempo and dynamics flattened out. <br>First movement "Allegro maestoso" slow, and not really resembling<br>Allegro. Left-hand figurations as noisy as he did in some of the<br>Mozart. I have it on right now, for weird old times' sake.<br><br>Sub-par sound for 1970, too...and some
tape unsteadiness. Did the Sony<br>issue fix any of that?<br><br><br>Brad Lehman<br>_______________________________________________________________________<br><br>This e-mail may be privileged and/or confidential, and the sender does not waive<br>any related rights and obligations. Any distribution, use or copying of this e-mail or the information<br>it contains by other than an intended recipient is unauthorized.<br>If you received this e-mail in error, please advise me (by return e-mail or otherwise) immediately.<br><br>Ce courriel peut contenir des renseignements protégés et confidentiels.<br>Lexpéditeur ne renonce pas aux droits et obligations qui sy rapportent.<br>Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce courriel ou des renseignements quil contient<br>par une personne autre que le destinataire désigné est interdite.<br>Si vous recevez ce courriel par erreur, veuillez men aviser immédiatement, <br>par retour de courriel ou par un
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