[f_minor] Ich ruf zu dir mein Herr..../Voyager

[Jörgen Lundmark]

Thank you Pat for poiting out this Perahia quote. Given the fact that 
Perahia is such a prominent Bach interpreter himself, that is praise indeed.

Regards,
Jorgen
> Beautiful indeed! Here is a site with Murray Perahia commenting on Gould:
> http://www.platforma.pl/bach/eng/gloud.phtml
> which I will place here:
> "Gould revealed us a thing that had not been perceived by anybody else 
> in the Bach's compositions (...) and simultaneously he taught us that 
> the role of the executor was not to serve but to provoke the art and 
> thus to reveal not only the most beautiful but also the most difficult 
> to bear."
> K
> In a message dated 2/23/2012 3:48:26 P.M. Central Standard Time, 
> pzumst at bluewin.ch writes:
>
>     Dear all
>     Some weeks ago someone here wanted to know if a recording of the
>     cantata Ich ruf zu dir mein Herr Jesus Christ by Johannn Sebastian
>     Bach was ever recorded by Glenn Gould.
>     Well, it wasn’t but by sheer coincidence I found another recording
>     and with this one I can kill two birds with one stone.
>     First you get a piano recording of said cantata plus you get info
>     on the NASA Voyager mission plus absolutely stunning images :
>     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb_KuB4AA7Q&feature=fvst
>     <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb_KuB4AA7Q&feature=fvst>
>     If you are new to the GG universe, there is a connection to GG and
>     the Voyager mission. Apart from being one of the most spectacular
>     missions NASA ever did, this spacecraft  also contains a recording
>     of parts of the WTC1 as recorded by GG (amongst other stuff), just
>     in case this spacecraft might one day be found by Little Green Men
>     far, far, very far away...
>     Pat
>

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