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The blog of conductor Jason Weinberger

Glenn Gould heads are intimately familiar with this, but Neven Mrgan’s chart highlighting the massive disparity in the timings of Gould’s two Goldberg Variations recordings still startles. Neven prefers the ‘81 version by a bit; I’ll take the ‘55 anyday. You?

Glenn Gould heads are intimately familiar with this, but Neven Mrgan’s chart highlighting the massive disparity in the timings of Gould’s two Goldberg Variations recordings still startles. Neven prefers the ‘81 version by a bit; I’ll take the ‘55 anyday. You?