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Review title: fascinating and controversial
Product review: The recordings certainly sound "Gouldian", in that they accurately mirror the pianist's contrapuntal clarity, chord balances, accents, dynamic shifts, pedaling, and hair-trigger precision. A few details even appear more precise than in 1955, such as the ever-so-tiny split bass note in Variation 12's first measure, corrected here. Yet the intensity behind note attacks seems softened, rounder overall sonority, along with the surround sound ambience that markedly contrasts to the close-up dryness Gould often favored in his recordings.In other words, the musical performance is liberated from the recorded artifact itself. Goodbye to 1955 mono, and to studio noises like piano bench squeaks and foot stomps. And goodbye to Gould humming along.
