[f_minor] Is this real? GG Beethoven 7th?

[Kevin Bazzana]

         The playing, the piano sonority, the recorded sound-none of this
resembles GG. Also, there is no humming/singing. But most important: There
is no evidence whatsoever that he ever recorded this. He recorded the
Symphony No. 5, recorded the first movement of No. 6 (and the whole thing
for CBC), then gave up on the Beethoven-symphonies project. While there are
some largely unknown odds-and-ends (live, broadcast, private) from very
early in GG's career, when documentation was sometimes iffy, there are no
lost Columbia recordings. There are still a few Columbia things (unfinished
projects, etc.) that have never been released, but they are well documented,
as is everything he did for Columbia; there seems to be zero chance that we
will come across previously unknown, wholly undocumented surprises as
significant as an entire, seamlessly edited Beethoven-symphony movement. To
revise this opinion, I'd have to see evidence from a source more persuasive
than some anonymous guy on YouTube. Kevin Bazzana

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