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- Date Released: April 19, 1994
- Genre: Classical
- Label: Sony Classical
- Copyright: (P) 1973, 1991 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Among the most magical instances of sustained lyricism ever recorded
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We Say...
"I have a century-long blind spot approximately demarcated by The Art of the Fugue on one side and Tristan on the other," said Glenn Gould of his atypical musical tastes (early-19th-century music by Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt and their contemporaries, the center of most pianists' repertories, held no fascination for him). His intense interest in late-Romantic music began with Wagner; unfortunately, Wagner, except for some early and uncharacteristic pieces, wrote no piano music.
Unable to resist, Gould made piano transcriptions of Wagner's orchestral music, and this disc contains his complete Wagner recordings: the Siegfried Idyll, originally for chamber orchestra, the "Siegfried's Rhine Journey" sequence from the opera Götterdämmerung, and the overture to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (the contrapuntal complexity of which, at the climax, required Gould to overdub himself to make sure all the orchestral lines were included). The Idyll, too, in its original version, was the piece that marked Gould's debut recording as a conductor — made in July and September 1982, just before his death at age 50, and just as he'd begun to leave the piano behind to concentrate on conducting. Controversially slow, the rapturous beauty of this Idyll recording has spoiled me for a more traditional approach (as one critic put it, it makes all other performances sound perfunctory). The long sunset codas of both Gould's Idylls are among the most magical instances of sustained lyricism ever recorded.
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Siegfried-Idyll (original version for 13 instruments)
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24:29 |
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| 02. | |
Die Meistersinger, Prelude, Act I (Piano transcription)
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9:35 |
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| 03. | |
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung
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13:12 |
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| 04. | |
Siegfried-Idyll
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23:31 |
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04 Total Tracks, 70:47 Total Length
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