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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Fantastic news indeed! The essay itself
will be worth the price of the publication.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Jorgen <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="3" 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
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.glenngould.ca">www.glenngould.ca</a>):
<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 color="black" size="3" 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
color="black" size="3" 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
color="black" size="3" 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
color="black" size="3" 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
color="black" size="3" 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>
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