This is quite a show piece, including an unexpected fugue in the final movement. Gould is remarkable but with his aversion to music that draws to much attention to itself, I'm not surprised he didn't play it again. Thank you for including the score Mr Cross. Those who cannot follow the intricacies of a score, don't know what they're missing.
He could have played the fugue at a slower tempo. It's his choice to play it at a breathtaking pace and still didn't skip a beat with the trill passages. Yes he's playing his vision of Beethoven rather than what the score dictates. But it makes it even more convincing.
This is quite a show piece, including an unexpected fugue in the final movement. Gould is remarkable but with his aversion to music that draws to much attention to itself, I'm not surprised he didn't play it again. Thank you for including the score Mr Cross. Those who cannot follow the intricacies of a score, don't know what they're missing.
Do you know that he considered the 1st movement the very best of Beethoven's sonatas?
@@samroth4118 No Sam I didn't. Then it makes me wonder even more why he didn't play it again. Glen was idiosyncratic to say the least.
He could have played the fugue at a slower tempo. It's his choice to play it at a breathtaking pace and still didn't skip a beat with the trill passages. Yes he's playing his vision of Beethoven rather than what the score dictates. But it makes it even more convincing.
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grazie
This is kinda terrible lol
you have gotten used to too many recordings this is take one at an extreme tempo. Loved it