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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'> A unique and very interesting publication was
recently announced on the Glenn Gould Foundation’s website (www.glenngould.ca):
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Glenn Gould’s Goldberg Variations: A
Transcription of the 1981 Recording of The Goldberg Variations by Johann
Sebastian Bach</span></i>, transcribed and edited by Nicholas Hopkins and just published
by Carl Fischer, in New York. (Hopkins is the company’s managing editor.)
I recently received a copy, and thought a brief report on it might be
appreciated here.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'> The publication, which runs to 155 pages, is
just what the title says: A notated transcription of Gould’s 1981 Goldberg
interpretation, based on both his recording and the Monsaingeon film. The
edition comprises, on facing pages, Bach’s original score and Gould’s
interpretation thereof. Every pertinent aspect of his performance is indicated,
in amazing detail: tempos and rhythmic nuances, dynamics, articulation and phrasing,
ornamentation, fingering and hand-crossing, pedaling, contrapuntal
relationships, repeats.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>The 47-page introduction discusses
the Goldberg Variations itself and Gould’s relationship with it, and
includes comments on every aspect of his 1981 interpretation, with particular attention
given to his unifying scheme of proportional tempos (Hopkins has a lot that is
new and interesting to say about this). There are further, detailed notes on
each variation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>The result is a kind of “study
guide” to Gould’s 1981 Goldberg.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Moreover, Hopkins’s
printing of Bach’s original score, on the verso side of each page, itself
amounts to an excellent, reliable Urtext edition of the piece, based on close
study of Bach’s original publication and his later corrected copy thereof.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>This new publication is supposed
to be available through the Carl Fischer website and Amazon, and presumably all
the other usual outlets for sheet music and music books. Kevin Bazzana<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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