Ray Bayles wrote: >Gould is one of the few that could come up with something new upon >reexamination of Bach. Not everybody agrees that the "new" version was >the better one. There are 7 different recordings of Gould's Goldberg's, >most of them badly recorded, but the performances leave me with the belief >that only the famous two were special creative performances. I personally >do not believe the later version has a better or "wiser" perspective. I prefer this later version because the roller-coaster speed of the first recording makes me angry every time I hear it. Some of the Variations sound like mindless virtuoso stunts, something I deeply detest. (And he skips all the repeats in both versions. I want the Goldbergs complete.) Robert