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This is Glenn Gould playing the third movement of Liszt’s piano transcription of Beethoven’s Pastoral symphony.
There’s something about the force of Gould’s playing that, at least for me, captures everything present in the orchestral version of the movement. But, at the same time, the extreme baldness and austerity of his style don’t at all capture, but rather imply the song’s orchestral backdrop. It’s as if the symphonic idea had been grasped and transposed onto the piano, at the same time containing it in its entirety and containing nothing of it, but powerfully suggesting the whole of it.
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