I couldn’t find a guitar version of his 26th sonata so we’re skipping to his 27th.
And now it’s on to Scott Ross who Claudia informed me had the temerity to dis Glenn Gould on his playing of Bach. (The things I learn from my readers.) The quote:
When I hear nutcases like Glenn Gould who do: [plays staccato version of J.S. Bach’s Partita no. 1, BWV 825, Allemande], I say he understood nothing of Bach’s music! I’ve listened carefully to his records: he didn’t understand. He was very brilliant; I respect him up to a certain point. For me, the fact that an artist doesn’t appear in public poses a problem. But at least he was a guy with the courage not to do things like other people. All the same, he was wide off the mark, so wide off the mark that you’d need a 747 to bring him back. I’m hard on Glenn Gould. Well, he’s dead now, so I won’t attack a colleague.
Which he just did.
He can be forgiven since his playing is superb and he recorded all 555 of Scarlatti’s sonatas. For a change, both the guitar version and the harpsichord version are at the same tempo.