Things Glenn Gould liked

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	"He listened to Artur Schnabel's recordings of Beethoven's piano sonatas when he was a teenager, and they are referred to with admiration several times in his writings."

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	"When he was preparing for his concerto debut at the age of 13 with the Beethoven 4th, he played along to this recording by Schnabel & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and copied it in every detail."

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	"He told Arthur Rubinstein that this recording of the Brahms quintet was the best chamber music performance of the year."

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	"He repeatedly wore out Alfred Deller's recording of his favourite composer: Orlando Gibbons."

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	"When talking about how he wouldn't record the Mozart piano concertos, he said Alfred Brendel's was as good a recording as was likely to be made of them."

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	"Asked for his 'preferred' recordings by a magazine, he called Henze's complete symphonies the most generous and best release of the season."

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	"The best Chopin B minor sonata he had heard, another choice for the magazine."

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	"He chose Ruggles's Sun-treader and said he liked that it was more laconic than Ives (don't know who the original performers were)."

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	"The last of his four choices for the magazine, he thought the cembalo was a bit too quiet but praised Herbert von Karajan's recording of the Brandenberg Concertos."

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	"His friend Sylvia Kind plays harpsichord in Frank Martin's Petite Symphonie Concertante. He told her he was overwhelmed by the achievement (of clarity only possible in recording)."

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	"One of his favourite books, he once read excerpts from 'The Three-Cornered World' on CBC radio."

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	"Karajan's 'Magisterial' recording of Metamorphosen that he listened to endlessly - sometimes 2 or 3 times a night."

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	"Bruno Monsaingeon once discovered him listening to Hansel and Gretel with the enthusiasm of a great discovery."

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	"He first head Jean Sibelius's 5th symphony live when performing with Karajan and it was an important experience for him."

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	"One of his favourite operas, he used to play this on piano and sing for his own pleasure."

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	"He was 'addicted' to Richard Strauss. He once tried to make a recording with Elizabeth Schwarzkopf; it was a disaster. His two favourite singers were Schwarzkopf and..."

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	"Barbra Streisand. She once met him and told him she was a big fan of his, too."

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	"Before he died he hired student Jon Klibonoff to play a concerto while he conducted. He was impressed by him and wondered why he was not already successful. He has now made some recordings of his own."

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	"He told Curtis Davis he had fallen in love with Aulis Sallinen's 3rd Symphony"

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	"At one point he considered recording Krenek's organ sonata and Schoenberg's variations on a recitative. He couldn't reconcile the physical demands of the organ and the piano."

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	"He also wanted to record Felix Mendelssohn's organ sonatas. He loved Mendelssohn but didn't record much by him."

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	"He called Jean-Jacques Kantorow "a spectacular talent, the most prodigiously original violinist I have heard in this generation." Urged us to keep him in mind: now he has made many recordings."

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	"Said he could live without Chopin's piano concertos until he heard Alexis Weissenberg's recording."

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	"He was delighted and amused by 'Switched-on Bach' and admired the technological innovation."

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	"He called Hermann Scherchen's Messiah 'one of the great revelations of the early LP era'."