Glenn Gould Radio Documentaries

Disc 1
GLENN GOULD
Casals - A Portrait for Radio
01. ALBERT KAHN: Periodically and, strangely enough, not infrequently - I meet someone who has never heard of the name of Pablo Casals before 03:15
02. KAHN: Not so very long ago - when I was in Puerto Rico last - we were talking about how we happened to come together originally 03:03
03. KAHN: It's a very strange feeling - when you're sitting, talking to Don Pablo - to realize that you're speaking with a man who played... 02:27
04. KAHN: You have to understand that I am speaking not as a musicologist - music is not primarily my field 02:42
05. KAHN: In the United States today, I suppose his name is most closely associated with his yearly appearances at the Marlboro Festival 07:20
06. PABLO CASALS: Now I say that the Marlboro School is the best possible - the best school in the world 06:49
07. KAHN: One question that was recently asked me regarding Casals, I found of special interest 05:10
08. FELIX GALAMIR: May I inject myself, my own personality into this discussion for a moment? 09:04
09. GUILLERMO FIGUEROA: Last year in the festival we had played a Bruckner symphony 08:07
10. KAHN: And there's one rather interesting contradiction that is perhaps worth mentioning 07:18
11. GALAMIR: Now Casals is a very strong personality 02:57
12. KAHN: It was Sir Francis Bacon who said that there is no beauty which hath not some imperfection in its being 07:30
13. GALAMIR: I also think that basically Casals is a very simple person 04:58
14. KAHN: If I were asked to sum up Don Pablo's credo, I think I would quote some words of his own rather than try to paraphrase what he said 03:49
15. HARRY MANNIS: Casals - A Portrait for Radio 01:36
Albert Kahn, vocals / Pablo Casals, vocals / Pablo Casals, cello / Felix Galamir, vocals / Guillermo Figueroa, vocals / Paula Robeson, vocals / Yvonne Figueroa, vocals / Eugene Drucker, vocals / Harry Mannis, vocals
Disc 2
Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio
01. GLENN GOULD: This is Glenn Gould and this programme is about Leopold Stokowski 05:34
02. LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI: Think of our solar system. Its colossal size 07:07
03. STOKOWSKI: Although I am interested in everything in the universe, what I really deeply understand is the symphonic world 03:55
04. STOKOWSKI: First of all, it's our privilege and our necessity to try to realize what was in the soul of the composer... 04:06
05. STOKOWSKI: If I had to perform the music of, say, Mozart or Shostakovich or Debussy: they all have their own world 03:08
06. STOKOWSKI: I think that Ives had that freedom 03:07
07. STOKOWSKI: We must give our education of music and of philosophy and of everything connected with human life, subtlety 02:31
08. STOKOWSKI: It can all be expressed in one word, and that one word is 'freedom' 03:22
09. STOKOWSKI: But has the Russian artist been divorced from the West? 05:02
10. STOKOWSKI: It is remarkable that one can stay in the home and hear music from all over the world 07:08
11. STOKOWSKI: In Holland, about 20 years ago, I was conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra 05:10
12. STOKOWSKI: I find that every day come new possibilities and new ideas and they must not be ignored 02:52
13. STOKOWSKI: It is quite possible that the so-called 'cave man' had such ideas too 04:46
14. HARRY MANNIS: Stokowski - A Portrait for Radio 00:48
Glenn Gould, vocals / Leopold Stokowski, vocals / Harry Mannis, vocals
Leopold Stokowski, Conductor