Re: My First Time......:)

["Robert C. Kunath" <kunath@hilltop.ic.edu>]

Dear Nick, and fellow Minors,

	My first Gould was the same record!  My Dad had the Columbia recording of
the Bach Keyboard Concerto No. 1 and the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2,
and I loved them both.  I must admit, though, that those recordings did not
make me a Gould fan: I was a callow 15 years old then, and was looking for
more visceral music like high-voltage Wagner and Tchaikovsky.  When I was
24, I heard Gould's second version of the Goldberg Variations and his
recordings of Byrd and Gibbons.  In part because of Gould's recent death,
those records haunted me, and, well, here I am (in good company, I must
say!).

Robert

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> From: na2 <na2@curie.dialix.com.au>
> To: f_minor@email.rutgers.edu
> Subject: My First Time......:)
> Date: Monday, February 23, 1998 3:44 PM
> 
> The first time I heard GG was on an old record my mother used to play of
> Bach's "Piano" Concerto No1 in D Minor. I am haunted to this day by what
> GG communicated to me on this performance.
> I have searched for years (pre-Internet) for a version of this
> recording. My main problem in not having the original in my possesion is
> that I can't be sure which version it was. I think it was on CBS, maybe
> with Bernstein(?), and I assume it was in mono.
> 
> This recording has coloured my appreciation/enjoyement of all subsequent
> recordings I have heard and it is my task this year to track down that
> particular performance and to secure a copy so that I may be
> instrumental in spoiling my children's appreciation for anything but the
> real deal ..!!
> 
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Nick Andrews
> 
> Bondi Beach
> Sydney Australia
>