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21 Feb 2024 Conversations with Tyler Masaaki Suzuki on Interpreting Bach
“There are one or two — the recording of organ playing, his organ playing. That was a little strange, I thought, but a piano — for example, Goldberg Variations — that’s a really fabulous recording, I think.”
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- 21 Feb 2024
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…What do you think of Glenn Gould’s highly unusual interpretations of Bach? I love the Glenn Gould performance very much. It is not so unusual if you try to make articulations, and also to make some effects like the harpsichord and organ and so on. I thought this is a quite natural conclusion that he did in that way. There are one or two — the recording of organ playing, his organ playing. That was a little strange, I thought, but a piano — for example, Goldberg Variations — that’s a really fabulous recording, I think. What do you think of the view that some of them are wonderful, like the partitas, the English Suite in A Minor, but say, the Well-Tempered Clavier — it just seems like swooning, and the tempos are too arbitrary. It’s not charming to me.…
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