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In Reply to: RE: My favorite: "recreation" of the 1955 posted by Bill Way on March 25, 2017 at 11:31:05
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They do call it that, but I don't like it. I think it misrepresents Gould's intentions because the sound of the Yamaha piano and the more generous acoustic in which the "re-performance" was recorded are quite different than the 1955 Gould original.
Also, I have some suspicions that "reperformance" wasn't as faithful as it was billed. On the Rachmaninoff Zenph "reperformance," a lot of rhythmic subtlety that you hear on those scratchy 78s is gone.
I hear so much MORE in the Zenph re-performances in terms of color and escape from the 1955 technical limitations that it perhaps deafens me to whatever rhythmic subtlety (if any!) might be lost. ;-)Also, I don't believe that all the aspects of the 1955 recording are necessarily representative of Gould's intentions. Sure, the original recording is close and dry, but so are a lot of other Columbia piano recordings from the early to mid fifties. This was Gould's first commercial recording - who says he had the level of control over the recording environment which he had later, once he'd become a superstar? Maybe he just took what he got in this instance. In addition, when the '55 performance was re-issued on the first CD reissue, with its "super bit mapping", I was surprised by how much more I could hear the studio reverberation, compared to the original LP, where it was somewhat buried in surface noise and tape hiss.
Edits: 03/26/17
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