1954 Goldbergs

[Marco Poli <poli@imiucca.csi.unimi.it>]

>        For those who don't know, I was surprised to find a 1954 (yes 54!)
>recording of the Goldberg Variations, recroded in one take, released by
>CBC (Canadaian Broadcasting Corporation) a couple of years ago.Along
>with the variations are some charming takes from the Well Tempered
>Clavier. There is a fantastic excerpt from a poem in the liner notes
>which goes as following:
>
>                It isn't Bach he's playing
>                From the grave, the stopped heart.
>                So free of gravity the mind lifts
>                Like a feathered seed, only
>                a thin shell of bone holding it in.
>                Not Bach, but music before it became
>                the least bit human.
>
>                                        -Lorna Crozier.
>
>        If anyone knows where the full poem can be found, I'd appreciate it.
>
>        regards,
>
>        Eric Luong.




Dear Eric,

Your message is very interesting.    Could you please let me know the
Catalog numbers of the 1954 Goldberg record?    And does anybody know if it
has ever  been published in Europe?


Regards,

Marco