A Forum for The Köln Concert Recordings

Comparative studies in arts can often serve as vehicles to elucidate our understanding, or if not at least, our appreciation for the complexities of art forms and their various representations. For instance, the pianist Glenn Gould justified recording the Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach a second time (twenty-six years later), by asserting that the new advances in recording technology made it possible for him to record the work again in ‘stereo audio’, contrasting with his early ‘mono’ recording version of the work. He also alleged that, although in the early version of the variations, they were well contrasted in their individual entities throughout his brilliant execution, in the consecutive version, he was looking for a more unifying interrelationship of the work as whole.

If you are enough familiar with The Köln Concert original recording and my recording (or any other professional recording) of the work, I would like to invite you to write your personal thoughts or critical viewpoints of the interpretations.

[Please let us all be thoughtful and respectful in our own formulated opinions and avoid suggestive vulgarism.]

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