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Impex - IMP6011 / Columbia MS 6262 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl -
AAA 100% Analogue - Numbered 2500 Copies Limited Edition
Mastering by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio - Pressed at RTI
AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only, from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head
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Paul Seydor of The Absolute Sound gave this Impex LP to me a couple of weeks ago as an early Christmas present. I could not help myself but play & enjoy it. This is a wonderful performance, impeccably played by Gould and Bernstein’s New York Philharmonic.
Like a gunslinger who files down the firing pin, Gould tweaked his Steinway for fast action and total control. The Impex reissue makes this obvious. Throughout (and especially in the solo passages), the LP lays bare the instrument: a box of strings struck by hammers, resonant and harmonic. Even at the fastest tempos, Gould’s technique yields a clear articulation of tone, nuance and dynamic on each note from each hand. In a fine confluence of sound and performance, Columbia engineered an impeccable sonic balance between soloist and orchestra. Today, Impex brings us a vinyl remaster as fresh, clear, and full-bodied as the day it was captured in 1961. Kevin Gray’s all-analog remaster of this six-eye gem turns a perfect triple Lutz into a quadruple Axel. Gray does not try to make an audiophile diva from an already fine recording, and the quiet, tick-free 180-gram vinyl really sticks the landing.
If your collection is missing Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, it lacks an essential piece of classical music. If it lacks Glenn Gould’s version, you are missing a quintessential performance.
Musicians:
Glenn Gould, pianist
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
New York Philharmonic, orchestra
Selections:
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto No. 4, in G Major, Op. 58
Side 1:
1. Allegro Moderato
Side 2:
1. Andante Con Moto
2. Rondo: Vivace
