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Vision Corrective Spectacles...

Sébastien Melmoth | Hôtel d'Alsace, PARIS | 08/15/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

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Absurdly egotistical demented doofuses who consider themselves authorities on all and sundry musical matters faultily berate the genius that was Glenn Gould for his virtuosic rendition (vis-à-vis concept and execution) of Mozart's Piano Sonatas--and this (incredulously) for the very quality which is most essentially characteristic of Gould's art viz., the utter originality of his performances.



The sad lack of imagination indicative of the psychic dullness of these would-be spawn of Momos exhibits an oxymoronic hiccup of the intellect--or rather, a flagrantly regrettable lack of cognizant flexibility and a woeful blindness in their pathetic inability to appreciate Gould's art.



Well, if we cannot here give sight to the blind let us at least lend hope to the nearsighted in advocating this remarkable set of recordings which fully illustrate Gould's incredible digital technique and foresight of aesthetic vision.



For here the naysayers are pierced by the sharp horns of a chiasmatic dilemma in that this 1958 performance of Mozart's Sonata No. 10 is entirely different in concept and execution from Gould's 1970 reading: therefore, doltish detractors are forced to babble out of both sides of their forkéd-tongued mealymouths with crapulous chutzpah entirely unrelated to Gould's genius.



For if they don't like one version how can these childish cretins carp on the other?

`They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other: "We played the pipe for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not cry"' (Luke 7:32).



Pity the fools who cannot appreciate both versions, for Gould's gifts convey a virtually celestial ecstasy of cosmic endeavour, leaving far behind the mucky mud-pups to the shallow wallows of their own small minds.



With refreshingly insightful clarity of critique Gould says `I think that if there's any excuse at all for making a recording it's to do it differently, to approach the work from a totally recreative point of view, to perform this particular work as it has never been heard before.'



`If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear' (Mark 4:23).



W. A. Mozart, Piano Sonata No. 10 (C-major, K.330):

Glenn Gould (1958),

i. Allegro moderato 05'14

ii. Andante cantabile 06'55

iii. Allegretto 03'55



Glenn Gould (1970),

i. Allegro moderato 03'18

ii. Andante cantabile 04'29

iii. Allegretto 03'26

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