In Reply to: I'm with you, Bill - I like it too - Don't they call it a "re-performance"? [nt] ;-) posted by Chris from Lafayette on March 25, 2017 at 11:42:20:
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.
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- RE: I'm with you, Bill - I like it too - Don't they call it a "re-performance"? [nt] ;-) - pbarach 16:50:34 03/25/17 (1)
- Well. . . we've had this discussion before - Chris from Lafayette 19:20:00 03/25/17 (0)