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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> The
playing, the piano sonority, the recorded sound—none of this resembles
GG. Also, there is no humming/singing. But most important: There is no evidence
whatsoever that he ever recorded this. He recorded the Symphony No. 5, recorded
the first movement of No. 6 (and the whole thing for CBC), then gave up on the
Beethoven-symphonies project. While there are some largely unknown
odds-and-ends (live, broadcast, private) from very early in GG’s career,
when documentation was sometimes iffy, there are no lost Columbia recordings.
There are still a few Columbia things (unfinished projects, etc.) that have
never been released, but they are well documented, as is everything he did for
Columbia; there seems to be zero chance that we will come across previously
unknown, wholly undocumented surprises as significant as an entire, seamlessly
edited Beethoven-symphony movement. To revise this opinion, I’d have to
see evidence from a source more persuasive than some anonymous guy on YouTube.
Kevin Bazzana<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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