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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: ACETATE TAPES

1988-0286

Sound

1 of 1

1967-03-29

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

director, Mario Prizek

John Culshaw, a record producer from Decca Records, London, England, introduce discussions. Glenn Gould and Humphrey Burton of the BBC discuss whether the concert hall, in this age of electronics, is inevitably obsolete. A discussion of the "home-entertainment centre" which would allow the individual to superimpose his views over the performers. Glenn Gould demonstrates two differing interpretations of the first bars of Beethoven's "Sonata in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 1". A discussion about the accoustical problem, the accuracy problems, and the exaggeration problem of the concert performance. A discussion of the re-creation method of performance. A discussion of the expanded scope of interpretation afforded by the recording process. John Culshaw sums up and evaluates Gould's predictions of the future. Glenn Gould performs Beethoven's "32 Variations in C Minor on an original theme. <60mn>

English

Open

GAD 0FD547

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