{"id":3960,"date":"2016-03-22T20:55:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T09:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2016-03-22T20:56:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T09:56:50","slug":"glenn-gould-on-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3960","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Gould on recording"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pianist Glenn Gould discussed the recording process with Yehudi Menuhin completing the playback of a Bach gigue:<\/p>\n

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Now, Yehudi, you’ve got to admit that you would not be likely to encounter a sound like that in the concert hall…<\/p>\n

The point is that, if I were to play that piece in a concert hall, as I have done many times – in fact, it used to be one of my party pieces – I would not be free to select the perspective we just heard; it represents a tight, clinical, X-ray-like view of that work, precise and at the same time intimate, which enables me to dissect it in a special way. On the platform, I would be forced to accept a compromised perspective – one which would be more or less equally acceptable to the listener down at the lip of the stage and to the standee up beyond the far balcony. I don’t need to tell you that, ultimately, one ends up with a perspective which is appropriate, if if at all, only for the listener in row L of the orchestra.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Menuhin, Yehudi & Davis, Curtis (1979) The Music of Man<\/em>. Toronto: Methuen, p.290-291.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pianist Glenn Gould discussed the recording process with Yehudi Menuhin completing the playback of a Bach gigue: Now, Yehudi, you’ve got to admit that you would not be likely to encounter a sound like that in the concert hall… The point is that, if I were to play that piece in a concert hall, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[661,662],"class_list":["post-3960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performers","tag-glenn-gould","tag-recording-process"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3962,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}