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Joie de Vie Exemplified...

Sébastien Melmoth | Hôtel d'Alsace, PARIS | 10/05/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

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Another miraculous recording by GG, whose digital celerity, accuracy, brilliance, insight, and utter joie de vie are a wonder of humanity.



In the three Sonatas of Op. 10 (1798), "Beethoven displays his full range of imagination and control of content" (Lockwood).



Gould was very enthusiastic about these under-played youthful Sonatas and here he imbues them with Mozart's operatic passion.



Par exemple, in the ardent c-minor Allegro molto e con brio of No. 1, GG recalls his own scintillating Mozart reading of the a-minor Sonata (K. 310) by percussively bracketing the opening chords (instead of arpeggiating them), thusly realizing a fractious urgency imparting a searing gravitas.



At over :10 duration, Gould fully captures a noble dolor in the d-minor Largo e mesto [mournful] of No. 3 which "reminds us of Beethoven improvising at the keyboard, able to move his listeners to tears" (Lockwood).

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