Artist: Glenn Gould
Album: Glenn Gould Plays His Own Transcriptions of Wagner Orchestral Showpieces
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 1973/2015
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 44,1 kHz
Duration: 46:33
Total Tracks: 3
Total Size: 406 MB
Tracklist:
01. Glenn Gould – Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Act I: Prelude (09:42)
02. Glenn Gould – Götterdämmerung, Prologue: Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey (13:15)
03. Glenn Gould – Siegfried-Idyll (23:35)
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“You know, I’ve always sort of sat down at night and played Wagner for myself, because I’m a total Wagnerite—hopelessly addicted to the later things especially—and I thought it would be fun to make my own transcriptions.” To manage the ending of the Meistersinger Overture without leaving out any of the themes, Gould had to play four-hands with himself—an instance of what he called “creative lying.”