[Dixielandjazz] Gould/Goldberg variations

[Anton Crouch]

Hello all

"Clap hands, here comes Charlie". About the Goldberg variations - "on piano
where it belongs"?

Oh dear  :-)

I like hearing the Goldbergs on piano very much (with a preference for
Rosalyn Tureck over Glenn Gould) but the piece most definitely does not
"belong" on the piano. It is specifically written for a two manual keyboard
and no pianist in the world can play it properly as written - a little
matter of the left and right hands crossing each other.

I would agree that many harpsichord performances can sound a little thin
but Landowska's are not in that company. She used an anachronistic steel
framed Pleyel and could really pump it out.

Quodlibet
Anton