Bach: The Goldberg Variations 1955 Performance: Zenph Re-performance

Bach: The Goldberg Variations 1955 Performance: Zenph Re-performance

Bach: The Goldberg Variations 1955 Performance: Zenph Re-performance
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Performer: Glenn Gould
Composer: Bach
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD
CD Release Date: 2007-05-29
Music Label: Sony Classics
Soundtracks:
  1. Aria
  2. Variation 1
  3. Variation 2
  4. Variation 3: Canon On The Unison
  5. Variation 4
  6. Variation 5
  7. Variation 6: Canon On The Second
  8. Variation 7
  9. Variation 8
  10. Variation 9: Canon On The Third
  11. Variation 10: Fughetta
  12. Variation 11
  13. Variation 12: Canon On The Fourth
  14. Variation 13
  15. Variation 14
  16. Variation 15: Canon On The Fifth
  17. Variation 16: Ouverture
  18. Variation 17
  19. Variation 18: Canon On The Sixth
  20. Variation 19
  21. Variation 20
  22. Variation 21: Canon On The Seventh
  23. Variation 22: Alla Breve
  24. Variation 23
  25. Variation 24: Canon On The Octave
  26. Variation 25
  27. Variation 26
  28. Variation 27: Canon On The Ninth
  29. Variation 28
  30. Variation 29
  31. Variation 30: Quodlibet
  32. Aria Da Capo
  33. Aria
  34. Variation 1
  35. Variation 2
  36. Variation 3: Canon On The Unison
  37. Variation 4
  38. Variation 5
  39. Variation 6: Canon On The Second
  40. Variation 7
  41. Variation 8
  42. Variation 9: Canon On The Third
  43. Variation 10: Fughetta
  44. Variation 11
  45. Variation 12: Canon On The Fourth
  46. Variation 13
  47. Variation 14
  48. Variation 15: Canon On The Fifth
  49. Variation 16: Ouverture
  50. Variation 17
  51. Variation 18: Canon On The Sixth
  52. Variation 19
  53. Variation 20
  54. Variation 21: Canon On The Seventh
  55. Variation 22: Alla Breve
  56. Variation 23
  57. Variation 24: Canon On The Octave
  58. Variation 25
  59. Variation 26
  60. Variation 27: Canon On The Ninth
  61. Variation 28
  62. Variation 29
  63. Variation 30: Quodlibet
  64. Aria Da Capo

Free Music Notes for Bach: The Goldberg Variations 1955 Performance: Zenph Re-performance

Free Music Review: Glenn Gould's 1955 Goldbergs Reborn
Hit: 5 Stars

This is not actually a review. I am simply copying and pasting commentary from the npr.org website, which had a program about this new process, the so-called Zenph process. You can -- at least for a few days -- hear the entire program here http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10439850&ft=1&f=1041:

Pianist Glenn Gould's classic 1955 recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations has never been out of print. Yet this week, Sony Classical will release a brand-new recording of it. It's actually a recording of a "re-performance" of the music, designed by a North Carolina software company called Zenph.

The idea is simple: Old recordings sound old. Decades of amazing musical performances are hidden behind the limits of audio technology at the time they were recorded. The Zenph "re-performance" process isn't a remastering -- that is, trying to fix an existing recording with equalization or noise reduction. Instead, it's a new recording of a performance that scientifically matches the earlier one. Zenph uses a Yamaha Disklavier Pro, an actual acoustic piano that can, with a computer's help, play back with microscopically accurate timing and sensitivity.

Zenph used the opening of Glenn Gould's famous 1955 Goldberg Variations as their "before-and-after" demo, a calling card that instantly got across to potential investors what they were doing. "We did a sales call at Sony, and met with the president of Sony Music," says Zenph president John Q. Walker, recalling a meeting with Sony Classical, which owns the masters for the original 1955 recording. "He took our demo CD, listened to it for three minutes, and said 'Let's do albums.'"

The Glenn Gould estate also was enthusiastic. Gould himself stopped giving live concert performances early in his career, in part so he could edit together perfect takes in the recording studio, back in the days of tape and splicing.

Zenph's new process of capturing a performance is incredibly complex because, in order to play back a piece of music, they need to make the jump from the audio that we hear to performance data. It's sort of like the way scanners with optical character recognition can turn a picture of a document into a word-processing file you can edit.

First, they save the original recording to the computer as a sound file, then the software can begin its analysis. It tracks exactly when each note was hit, how loudly, with what kind of attack, and when and how it was released. Add to that the complexity of what a note does in the air after it's played, interacting with the room's acoustics and other notes around it.

Then there are the philosophical and ethical questions. Do you correct mistakes?

"We're able to actually clean out some of the wrong notes that Gould played," says Anatoly Larkin, a performance analyst with Zenph. "But we don't do that because our job is to, first of all, present the accurate artistic statement."

Colin Eatock is a Canadian music critic who was present when the Zenph team offered a concert performance of the complete Goldbergs in Toronto in September. He says that for all its cutting-edge technology, the Zenph re-performances are pointing classical music, yet again, into the past. "I'm not sure that this is what a healthy musical culture does," Eatock says. "I mean, the past should be respected and remembered, but a culture that becomes so completely fixated on the past and reproducing the past is, I think, in trouble." But the Zenph team sees what they're doing as bringing "value to the vaults" of troubled record companies by making older performances more accessible to audiences who are resistant to the sound of scratchy recordings.

Zenph will be turning to jazz next, with a recording of "re-performances'" of Art Tatum, including a live concert performance they hope to re-create, with no one at the piano, at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
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