tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post8512909599473637729..comments2024-03-28T13:06:46.297+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: A couple of musical discoveries - Yuan Sheng and Lauri VolpiBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-10884043821373533772020-10-09T07:22:46.659+01:002020-10-09T07:22:46.659+01:00The partitas are written with two sections, each r...The partitas are written with two sections, each repeated; Gould's practice is always to do the first section repeat, but not the second - on the grounds that when one has reached the end of the piece, it makes sense to stop! I agree. So he play 3/4 of the sections. He does the same for the French and English Suites. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-20678913643324315032020-10-09T02:02:19.602+01:002020-10-09T02:02:19.602+01:00I have the Glenn Gould recording of the Partitas o...I have the Glenn Gould recording of the Partitas on a two-disc vinyl set, the prize for having my name drawn from correct answers to a music quiz question by a (now long-gone) classical radio station in my teens. Curiously the Gould set is about 100 minutes long, nowhere near the 145 minutes of the Yuan recording. Is this due to leaving out 'repeats' in the movements?<br /><br />Yuan's touch is so light that the modern piano seems to transform into, or at least suggest, another instrument without actually having to sound like a clavichord or harpsichord.<br /><br />I miss Glenn Gould's soft humming in an early bar of the Praeludium of the No. 1.a_probsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16197411067925016452noreply@blogger.com