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New Glenn Gould 81 CD Set Now Available for Streaming at Apple Music

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Posted on September 8, 2015 at 17:46:16
srl1
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Apple must think there are some classical customers out there in their new streaming service. I just discovered the complete remastered 81 CD box set of all of Glenn Gould's CBS/Sony recordings. Track information is sparse to non-existent, but you can use the Amazon listing of all the tracks to supplement the data.

So all of you Gould fans, either sample before buying, or save the couple-hundred dollars for the set and just listen to it here. The U.S. release date for the set is October 9th, and the release date in the U.K. and Canada is September 11th.

I think I'll play drop the needle with it some tonight...

 

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There are a slew of these in this series up on QOBUZ..., posted on September 8, 2015 at 19:34:26
Ivan303
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Issued by Sony in about 2012 and have The Glenn Gould Collection with the small empty chair in the corner.

Hope the also get this more recent collection up for streaming as well.




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RE: There are a slew of these in this series up on QOBUZ..., posted on September 9, 2015 at 03:58:03
srl1
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 For what it's worth, the new collection is supposed to be all of his Columbia releases all remastered. Remastered, like many other words today, may not have the same meaning as it used to...

 

Even IF they used the original multi-track masters, posted on September 11, 2015 at 11:46:46
Timbo in Oz
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 They wouldn't be able to do more than smooth down the close, multiple-mono miking and resulting edgy un-natural sound.

But then again, pop-recording technique for a baby-boomer pop-idol seems appropriate, no?!

;-)



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As I'm sure you know. . . , posted on September 12, 2015 at 00:59:52
Chris from Lafayette
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 . . . the microphone placement on many of the Gould recordings was designed to minimize his obligato crooning. And even then, the vocal shenanigans were still all too evident. Although I like many of Gould's performances, they're a very mixed bag to say the least, and I've grown generally less fond of them over the years - and the CBS SQ is generally not helpful. Some of this SQ was the result of Gould's idiosyncratic, artsy-fartsy conceits, such as the blubbering piano he used in his recording of the Bach Inventions and Sinfonias. I grew up with Gould's recordings of some repertoire (Bach in particular), but, over time, I've come to appreciate other approaches to the composer by other pianists, whom I sometimes prefer to Gould. These other pianists are generally accorded much better engineering too.

 

well, not just his crooning he wanted and CBS LIKED lots of close mono miking, posted on September 12, 2015 at 13:45:56
Timbo in Oz
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 Don't like his playing, never have.

The isolation booth idea extended to encompass a grand piano, and not all that wonderful a grand. But perhaps that's all the early reflections and close-miking, severely altering timbre, nuance point and flow.

Pop-culture marketing to baby-boomers. Not one of the grown ups I sang with in the 1960s liked or respected Gould or his playing. So I listened and, eventually understood.

I was over that time a tween and a teen and loved pop-music. Took talking to 'Our ABC's ginger-beers when they came always using just a single capsule mike left in place well above the knave and close to the choir stalls/sanctuary - before I began to get it at all.


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About 80 new Glenn Gould releases just hit QOBUZ dated 10 Spet 2015..., posted on September 12, 2015 at 15:38:09
Ivan303
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 with the same jackets as your picture!

What do you recommend for starters?




First they came for the dumb-asses
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a dumb-ass

 

RE: well, not just his crooning he wanted and CBS LIKED lots of close mono miking, posted on September 27, 2015 at 20:20:29
ahendler
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 There is a video of Gould playing his 2nd recording (1981) of the Goldberg variations. It is in a large open studio and the mikes are set back from the piano which by the way for this recording was a Yamaha. Gould is still my favorite Bach pianist and if I love a performance I don't care about the recording quality. Also I think the sound of the 1981 Goldberg is excellent. Watching him play is hard because he was obviously in very poor health
Alan

 

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