To me the second recording that Glenn Gould did is far better than
the first, but surprisingly there are some critics who favour the first
recording, that was done 27 years earlier by a young and unexperienced man.

The main argument is the same reason why I seldom read authors younger than
40 since they seldom got very much to say - there are of course exceptions
like Kafka who wrote one of his best pieces "Die Verwandlung" in the early
days and one of his worst "Forschungen eines Hundes" the very same year he
died - but also because the estetic value seems to be on a different level.

Patrick