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Topic: Beethoven's Sonata's  (Read 3530 times)

Offline bachapprentice

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Beethoven's Sonata's
on: October 16, 2009, 12:34:36 PM
Probably one of the greatest Sonata performances has to be Glenn Goulds Sonata Op. 31 suite 2. Check out this video.



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Offline birba

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Re: Beethoven's Sonata's
Reply #1 on: October 16, 2009, 07:43:18 PM
Despite his histrionics, he doesn't really thrill me in this performance.

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Re: Beethoven's Sonata's
Reply #2 on: October 25, 2009, 08:03:49 PM
Are we meant to review this? It's surprisingly sloppy in places, not at all usual for Gould. And his pedalling is somewhat strange, although maybe it would be easier to understand if the audio quality were better...
 

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