Glenn Gould plays Gibbons: Lord Salisbury Pavane & Galliard

Edited captions are available for this item. Select ’English’, not ’English (auto-generated)’. There are four recordings by Gould of the Lord Salisbury Pavan, and the first three of these are acccompanied by the Galliard. 0:00 remarks on Gibbons from ’Chemins de la Musique’, 1974. Massey Hall, Toronto, January 17, 1956: 0:56 Pavan 4:32 Galliard This earliest recording we have of Gould’s Gibbons is straightforward and unornamented. New York, Columbia recording, August 1, 1968: 6:16 Pavan 10:20 Galliard Some ornamentation, especially in section 2 of the Pavan, and quite a bit of ’strumming’ of chords. Toronto, Radio Broadcast, December 26, 1968: 12:11 Pavan 19:10 Galliard Only a few months later (though I cannot rule out that these could be outtakes from the Columbia sessions), and there is a new conception of the piece: the ornamentation is now profuse. Even the written out ornaments are modified. Each section of the Pavan i
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