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| Richard
Wagner (1813-1888)
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Glenn
Gould Plays His Own Transcriptions
of Wagner
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Prelude,
Act I (Die
Meistersinger)
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9' 35"
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Dawn and
Siegfried's
Rhine Journey
(Götterdammerung)
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12'
12" |
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Siegfried-Idyll |
23'
31" |
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Luogo e data
di registrazione
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-
Eaton's Auditorium, Toronto
(Canada) - 30 giugno 1973 - (Die
Meistersinger)
- Eaton's
Auditorium, Toronto
(Canada) - 14 maggio
& 30 giugno 1973 -
(Dawn and Siegfried's
Rhine Journey)
- Eaton's
Auditorium,
Toronto
(Canada) - 3 e
4 febbraio
1973 -
(Siegfried-Idyll)
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Registrazione
live / studio
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Producer
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Andrew Kazdin
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Sigla CD
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| 88697130942-48 - (1 CD) - 46'
18" - (c) 2007 |
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Precedenti
Edizioni
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| Columbia - M 32351 (stereo) -
(1 lp) - (p) 03/09/1973 |
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Note di
copertina
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TRANSCRIPTION.
See "Arrangement."
ARRANGEMENT. An adaptation: the musical
counterpart of literary translation.
Voices or instruments are as languages by
which the thoughts or emotions of
composers are made known to the world; and
the object of arrangement is to make that
which was written in one musical language
intelligible in an other... The meanings
and values of words and notes are variable
with their relative positions, and the
choice of them demands knowledge of the
work generally as well as of the details
of the materials of which it is composed.
It demands, in fact, a certain
correspondence of feeling with the
original author in the mind of the
arranger or translator.
- Grove's Dictionary of Music
and Musicians
In this album, Glenn Gould demonstrates
another facet of his Protean musical
personality. With these performances of
his own transcriptions of excerpts from
the works of Richard Wagner, he proves,
beyond doubt, to be an interpreter whose
konwledge of his basic material reveals a
true correspondence of feeling with the
original author. More, he shows himself to
be a creator of estraordinary imagination
and fidelity in his translation of
Wagner's orchestral sonorities into the
language of the piano.
Mr. Gould's trasncription of the
"Siegfried Idyll" was premiered on a radio
recital for the Canadian Briadcasting
Corporation in early 1973. Included
herewith are some first-person program
notes in the form of a conversation
between Glenn Gould and C.B.C. announcer
Ken Haslam on the pitfalls and pleasures
of piano transcriptions.
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