[f_minor] "Discussion of the Canadian pianist GG & Tureck

Brad Lehman bpl at umich.edu
Sat Aug 14 12:43:38 EDT 2010


On 8/14/2010 8:58 AM, Lynne Ittleman wrote:
> Greetings
> As I'm well past 60 & spent
> 8 yrs getting 2 degrees in music
> & "discovered" GG
> during the Nixon administration
> (the only good thing i can
> think of regarding tricky)
> prior to that there was no
> Bach interpreter other than
> Tureck
> EVERYBODY KNEW THAT!
> Bach & Tureck went together
> like salt & pepper
> i had the records & she was
> my muse until Gould came
> on the scene
> there was not anyone else
> associated w/bach
> not in new york or cincinnati
> anyway   (...)

No records by Wanda Landowska from the 1930s-50s, Ralph Kirkpatrick from 
the 1940s forward, Sylvia Marlowe from the 1950s, Gustav Leonhardt from 
the 1950s forward, or Igor Kipnis from the 1960s?  Those are some of the 
giants!


Brad Lehman


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