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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=4 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>I can belatedly add a bit of (ultimately frustrating)
information to Jörgen’s post. He is correct that GG never released “acoustic
orchestrations” of Scriabin’s <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Désir</span></i>
and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Caresse dansée</span></i>, but this
needs to be clarified: Unlike the Scriabin Fifth Sonata (recorded 1970 in New
York), <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Désir</span></i> and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Caresse dansée</span></i> were recorded in 1972 in
Toronto, and they were not recorded using “acoustic orchestration,”
just with conventional miking. (GG himself released them during his lifetime in
the <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Silver Jubilee Album</span></i>, so if
they had been recorded using “acoustic orchestration” he could have—and
certainly would have—released them as such.) But during the staged
recording session in Monsaingeon’s 1974 TV series, he did indeed record <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Désir</span></i> and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Caresse
dansée</span></i> using 4 ranks of mikes on 8-track tape, and is shown doing a
provisional “acoustic orchestration” in the studio afterward, with
Lorne Tulk. So the question is: Where is <i><span style='font-style:italic'>that</span></i>
tape? Where is the multi-track tape GG made in front of Monsaingeon’s
cameras? I don’t know, and apparently no one else does, either. When I was
writing my Gould biography, and on some other occasions, I have tried to find
out—scoured the Canadian national library’s online Gould database,
inquired with the audio people at the library, asked Lorne himself, etc.—but
apparently no one knows where this tape is, including Théberge, with whom I discussed
this; in his liner notes for his Sony Classical release, he writes that these
tapes “appear to have been lost forever.” That seems unlikely and
highly uncharacteristic; Gould was such a packrat about such things. I persist
in believing that the tape survives somehow, presumably among his effects in
Ottawa, perhaps mislabeled (by him or someone else) or otherwise “hiding,”
though I am only guessing (and hoping) here. Anyway, since the 1974 multi-track
TV version of<i><span style='font-style:italic'> Désir</span></i> and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Caresse dansée </span></i>is currently lost (forever
or otherwise), we have to make do with Théberge’s speculative “orchestration”
of the 1972 recording. Kevin Bazzana<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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