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Title: Not Representative
Review: Gould is a magnificent pianist and when he nails a work, he brings life and meaning to it in ways other pianists could only dream about. On this CD however, the approach taken on many of these pieces seems to defy the spirit of the youthful Beethoven. Beethoven was a virtuoso in his early days and it is hard to imagine the young fiery pianist taking the pieces of Opus 2 at the extremely slow tempo's Gould selects here. Any other performer (Brendel, Goode, A. Fischer) will give you a better representative performance of these pieces. Too make matters worse, when playing the Moonlight sonata Movement one, Gould decides to rush things! I must state again, I love Gould overall but he does not do these pieces justice here in regards to the composers intentions. Also, there are no liner notes.
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